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Florida employers and their attorneys received good news in September when the Florida Supreme Court finally issued its opinion in White v. Mederi Caretenders Visiting Services of Southeast Florida, LLC, 42 Fla. L. Weekly S803a (Fla. 2017). At issue in White, was whether referral sources could constitute protectable legitimate interests…

When survey after survey of America’s workforce confirms that a large majority of employees admit to taking data from their current or former employers without permission, safeguards to protect proprietary and confidential information, including trade secrets, become a priority. The loss of corporate data can be devastating. When a former…

Up until recently, Florida businesses had to rely on state laws to obtain remedies, including injunctive relief, when an employee or competitor misappropriated trade secrets. This changed on May 11, 2016, when President Obama signed into law the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (“DTSA”), which creates a federal civil…