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(Editor’s note: Curtis Smolar is a partner at Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.) A reader asks : My business is in an industry where sales people and software engineers are often recruited by competitors. How can I protect my company from being raided? Answer : Employers use what are called restrictive covenants to protect trade secrets and prevent employees from unfairly stealing clients and/or information.
In the latest blow to the reeling Dewey & LeBoeuf, the Manhattan district attorney's office has opened an investigation into "allegations of wrongdoing" by a former firm chairman, and the firm has tapped two of its own lawyers to lead an internal probe, according to a memo authored by Dewey management. The bombshell revelation of the criminal probe came the same day that the firm got a bit of good news from its lenders. Fifty-one litigants attending a second Scott Rothstein deposition will have to share the costs of the deposition with the bankruptcy trustee, including the $500-an-hour fee charged by Rothstein attorney Marc Nurik. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to repair the growing rift among lower courts over the retroactive effect of its landmark ruling that requires lawyers to advise their clients about the possible deportation consequences of pleading guilty.
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