Trade Secrets Basics and Case Management

August 27, 2021, 1 – 4 pm EST

With passage of the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, Congress significantly expanded federal trade secret litigation.  In addition, federal prosecutors have pursued a growing number of criminal trade secrecy cases.  Featuring prominent trade secret scholars, treatise authors, practitioners, prosecutors, and judges, this program covers the basic principles and doctrines governing trade secret protection, distinctive case management aspects, and the criminal trade secret litigation

Program Faculty

Peter S. MenellKoret Professor of Law; Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology; Faculty Director, Berkeley Judicial Institute; University of California at Berkeley School of Law

Hon. Beth Labson Freeman, District Judge, Northern District of California

David S. Almeling, Partner, O’Melveny

Victoria A. Cundiff, Partner, Paul Hastings

James Pooley,  Trade Secret Attorney, Expert Witness, and ADR Neutral

Peter J. Toren, Trade Secret Attorney; Former Federal Prosecutor, Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section

Elizabeth A. Rowe, Irving Cypen Professor of Law, University of Florida College of Law

Rebecca Wexler, Assistant Professor of Law Co-Director; Berkeley Center for Law & Technology; University of California at Berkeley School of Law

Background Materials