Protecting Your Companys Confidentiality agreements: how to stay out of legal trouble?

Employers have available a broad spectrum of covenants and clauses tailor-made to protect the organization’s intellectual property, proprietary information, and valuable human resources from misappropriation by current employees. Our upcoming webinar discusses how the clauses should be written, how they can best be enforced, and what are the legal pitfalls of misuse.

The webinar covers the following key areas:

• How to protect your business from competitors and how to hold onto key employees within the letter of the law
• How to draft a confidentiality clause that covers all your proprietary information
• How to prepare for the inevitable data theft and how to respond in the crucial first 48 hours after it happens

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Employers have available a broad spectrum of covenants and clauses tailor-made to protect the organization’s intellectual property, proprietary information, and valuable human resources from misappropriation by current employees. This tool-bag includes, restrictive covenant agreement, non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), employee non compete agreement, no-solicitation provisos, and confidentiality clauses.

Knowing when and how to use each of these tools effectively --- and legally --- is a critical skill set in our IT age.

WHO WILL BENEFIT

In-House Counsel

Human Resources

Labor Relations

Affirmative Action Officers

Contract Administrators

Speaker Profile: Jim Castagnera holds an M.A. in Journalism from Kent State University, and a J.D. and Ph.D. (American Studies) from Case Western Reserve University. He practiced law for 36 years, before retiring in June 2019 and currently devotes his full-time to journalism and teaching.