Showing posts with label Attorneys' Fees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Attorneys' Fees. Show all posts
Friday, December 7, 2018

Reading Round-Up and Some Thoughts on Wrapping Up Another Non-Compete Case

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As the year comes to close, I've come across a few recent articles that merit some brief mention. *** A prominent early voice in the...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

Case Law Update: Riding Circuit

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The last few months we've seen a number of interesting decisions from the federal circuit courts of appeal, both on issues of State law ...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Back from Hiatus (Part II): State Law Updates

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Last week, I discussed three examples of Illinois courts analyzing similar non-compete issues in very different ways, a post that amply illu...
Friday, November 3, 2017

The Reading List (2017, No. 26): Fee Awards, New Legislation, and Inevitable Disclosure

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Non-Compete and Trade Secrets News for the week ended November 3, 2017 *** Illinois Appellate Court Affirms $1.5 Million Fee Award In ...
Friday, June 2, 2017

The Reading List (2017, No. 21): Levandowski's Gone

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Non-Compete and Trade Secrets News for the week ended June 2, 2017 *** Waymo v. Uber We know what the lead story is: Waymo's suit ...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

The Reading List (2017, No. 15): Trade Secrets Theft and the Fifth Amendment

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Non-Compete and Trade Secrets News for the week ended April 14, 2017 *** The Fifth Amendment and Document Production The Fifth Amendme...
Friday, April 7, 2017

The Reading List (2017, No. 14): Showing Irreparable Harm Requires Actual Facts

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Non-Compete and Trade Secrets News for the week ended April 7, 2017 *** Franchise Non-Competes and Irreparable Harm Disputes over fran...
Friday, October 5, 2012

Case Law Update: The Remedies and Civil Procedure Edition

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This is a much overdue case law update, so it's a little lengthy. But on the upside, it touches on a number of different subjects from a...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Cook County Order on Attorneys' Fees Illustrates Factors Used to Assess Bad Faith

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Earlier this year, Judge Mary Anne Mason in the Circuit Court of Cook County awarded attorneys' fees to a prevailing defendant under Sec...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Ohio's Standard for Malicious Litigation Sounds Familiar

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I rely entirely on John Marsh of Hahn Loeser to provide details on one of the year's most important competition cases, American Chemica...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Case Update...The Trade Secrets Edition

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I've come up with a better way to differentiate between trade secrets (protected nearly everywhere by statute) and confidential informat...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Indiana's Blacklisting Statute Reinterpreted on Certified Question

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I have a handful of favorite moments from my legal career. One is when I had a state court judge tell me during closing that my legal ar...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Recent Decisions of Interest (No. 6)

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This week's Recent Decisions highlights a jury verdict in Arkansas arising out of the sale of an accounting practice. In Creed Spann v. ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The Reading List (No. 6)

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I'm sick of bad lawyers. And I'm sick of bad lawyers filing bad lawsuits. Unfortunately, in my area of the legal world - trade secre...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

The Weekly Posner (No. 2)

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Because damages are often extremely difficult to prove (and because injunction issues are decided early in a case), attorneys' fees ofte...
Friday, February 10, 2012

Illinois Legislative Update

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The Weekly Posner shall return next week. In the meantime, an important new bill has been introduced in the Illinois General Assembly. Unlik...
Friday, November 18, 2011

The Cost of Litigating Competition Cases

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One of the inescapable facts about non-compete and trade secrets cases is that the cost of legal services often far outweighs the monetary v...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Uniform Trade Secrets Act Not Uniform When It Comes to Fee-Shifting

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Trade secrets cases raise the specter of fee-shifting. Like many prevailing party statutes, fee-shifting is not automatic in trade secrets c...
Monday, October 17, 2011

Attorneys Fees In Competition Disputes Often Disproportionate to Harm (SKF USA v. Bjerkness)

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One of the inescapable truths about non-compete and trade secrets cases is the expense associated with litigating them. In many, if not most...