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Practice focuses on litigation, trade secret litigation, employment litigation and counseling. Significant experience litigating complex emergency relief matters, including provisional remedy and preliminary injunction actions and cases involving trade-secret misappropriation and the enforceability of non-competition restrictions for both corporations and individuals. Representative successes include:• Obtained provisional remedy seizure of stolen aerospace parts and later converted attachment remedy into large money judgment and permanent return of parts.• Obtained Summary Judgment, affirmed by the Ninth Circuit, in litigation brought by former employee to void his non-competition restrictions. • Obtained Summary Judgment, currently pending on appeal, in litigation to void client’s non-competition restriction so that he could work unrestricted for competitor.• Defeated preliminary injunction application brought by competitor to enforce overly broad restrictive covenants. • Secured significant settlement on behalf of Internet marketing company, after former employees deceitfully obtained proprietary information.• Secured favorable settlement, including injunctive relief, on behalf of corporate client after employee stole confidential information and began competing during his employment.• Successfully froze and later seized millions of dollars in stolen funds for corporate client.• Routinely sue to enforce employee non-competition and non-solicitation agreements to protect trade secrets, customer relationships, and employee relationships.• Routinely defend clients who are being sued by competitors for hiring employees subject to non-competition or customer non-solicitation restrictions.Judicial Law Clerk to Judge William C. Canby, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1998-1999. Judge Pro Tempore, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, 2007—.

Listed skills include Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Appeals, Civil Litigation, and 12 others.