News Release: Los Angeles CALI district dinner/seminar
CALI’s upcoming event:California Association of Licensed Investigators (CALI) is a professional organization with nearly 2,000 members, making it the largest private investigation association in the world. (www.cali-pi.org )
Los Angeles CALI district dinner/seminar
Topic: Trade Secret Law and Investigations
Date: Thursday, April 14, 2005
6:30 p.m. – Networking, 7:00 p.m. – Dinner/Seminar
Location : Old Spaghetti Factory
5939 W Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028 , (323) 469-7149
Cost: $25 for dinner/seminar
RSVP: Contact Melanie PAEK, CALI Los Angeles District Governor, (626) 284-3070 or msp@gordianinv.com
Speaker: James M. Lee, Law Offices of Lee and Tran, www.leeandtran.com
James M. Lee is one of the most frequently booked speakers in America today.
In this "Information Age," a company’s confidential techniques, processes, business plans, and customer lists are among its most valuable assets. The ability to maintain the confidentiality of such information—typically referred to as “trade secrets”—is crucial for the company to maintain its competitiveness. Likewise, companies are increasingly facing claims that their trade secrets were misappropriated from someone else. These claims, if successfully proven, may result in the immediate closure of the company. As such, trade secrets cases are routinely bet-the-company cases.
Because of the high-stakes involved, it is important to understand the basics of trade secrets law and to determine from an investigation point of view, what evidence and techniques are useful to prove or disprove a trade secrets matter. Lee & Tran and its attorneys have worked on various trade secrets matters including:
* Obtained a dismissal, via a 12(b)(6) motion, of a $10 million trade secret claim filed against a Canadian technology company by an entity represented by a 400-lawyer firm.
* Representing a global Fortune 100 conglomerate based in Asia in the criminal prosecution of a former employee accused of misappropriating technology worth billions of dollars.
* Successfully defeated an application for a temporary restraining order in a trade secrets dispute involving two facilities catered to members of the United States Olympics team.
* Obtained favorable result in a trade secrets litigation between competing steel manufacturing companies.
Melanie Paek
Gordian Investigations (CA License number: PI 22041)
2168 S. Atlantic Blvd., #348
Monterey Park, CA 91754
(626) 284-3070
Fax: (626) 628-1820
gordian@charter.net or msp@gordianinv.com
www.gordianinv.com
