Cozen O’Connor

Firm overview:

Cozen O’Connor’s Trade Secrets, Restrictive Covenants, and Computer Abuse team combines attorneys from the firm’s labour and employment, intellectual property, and commercial litigation practices.

Collectively, these attorneys have implemented and litigated nationwide restrictive covenants, invention assignment agreements, and confidentiality agreements. Cozen O’Connor has handled hundreds of injunction proceedings relating to the theft of trade secrets, theft of computer data, restrictive covenants, and breach of employee loyalty in courts across the US.

The firm has extensive first-chair jury-trial experience in significant multi-jurisdictional cases. It has successfully obtained and defeated emergency injunctions, won multimillion-dollar verdicts on behalf of plaintiffs, achieved exoneration for defendants and received fee awards for plaintiffs and defendants.

Team overview:

The firm’s attorneys take a collaborative approach to trade secrets cases, employing lawyers from varying disciplines and offices to create matter-specific teams.

James (Jim) Gale is co-chair, Intellectual Property Litigation. He has handled hundreds of disputes involving patents, trade secrets, restrictive covenants, trademarks, unfair competition, and the internet. His client list includes US and global high-technology manufacturers, as well as traditional brick-and-mortar businesses.