Understanding Trade Secret Disputes and the Advantage of Resolving Them Through ADR

Overview of Understanding Trade Secret Disputes and the Advantage of Resolving Them Through ADR

Panelists review what trade secrets are and why they become the subject of litigation, then discuss the Defend Trade Secrets Act and the remedies it offers, reflecting on its strengths and weaknesses. They examine the divide among courts on trade secret identification requirements and explain how ADR serves plaintiffs and defendants facing expensive, drawn-out litigation, distinguishing soft from hard intellectual property.

What you’ll learn in Understanding Trade Secret Disputes and the Advantage of Resolving Them Through ADR

• Explain what trade secrets are and why they are litigated
• Assess the DTSA's remedies, strengths, and weaknesses
• Understand the divide over trade secret identification requirements
• Evaluate when ADR is preferable to litigation for trade secret disputes

Curriculum

1. 1. Overview of Trade Secret Litigation

   What trade secrets are and why they become litigated.

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2. 2. Defend Trade Secrets Act Impact on Trade Secret Litigation

   Remedies offered and the Act's strengths and weaknesses.

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3. 3. Trade Secret Identification Requirements

   The divide among courts and jurisdictions on identification.

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4. 4. The Benefit of Using ADR to Resolve Trade Secret Disputes

   How ADR serves plaintiffs and defendants in trade secret cases.

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Your instructors

Yoav Griver

Partner, Zeichner Ellman & Krause LLP

Zeichner Ellman & Krause LLP

Yoav M. Griver is a partner in the litigation group at Zeichner Ellman & Krause LLP, where his practice covers commercial and financial litigation, copyright and intellectual property litigation, and e-discovery and cybersecurity. He defended Hitachi America in what his firm describes as the longest customs fraud trial in the history of the Court of International Trade, and MasterCard against multidistrict class claims that it was responsible under RICO for internet gambling. Earlier he was litigation counsel at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and prosecuted banking conspiracy, stock fraud and other cases for Israel's Ministry of Justice. He is an adjunct professor at NYU teaching sports law, a co-editor and author of the treatise Dispute Resolution and e-Discovery, and an Order of the Coif graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. At Legal Cyber Academy he teaches on phishing, trade secret disputes and ADR, and current eDiscovery practice.

Daniel Rozansky

Partner, Brown Rudnick LLP

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP

Daniel Rozansky is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Brown Rudnick LLP, which he joined in 2025 as one of the four partners who launched the office. His litigation practice covers entertainment and media, brand and reputation management, privacy, First Amendment matters, intellectual property, and complex business and real estate disputes. He was previously co-chair of commercial litigation at Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP. He holds a J.D. from Loyola Law School and a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego, and is ranked by Chambers USA in Media & Entertainment Litigation, California. At Legal Cyber Academy, Daniel Rozansky teaches on computer forensics and on resolving trade secret disputes through ADR.

Bradford Newman

Partner and Head of Complex Technology Disputes (US), Eversheds Sutherland

Baker McKenzie

Bradford Newman is a partner at Eversheds Sutherland and the firm's Head of Complex Technology Disputes (US), based in Silicon Valley, where he joined when the firm opened that office in 2025. He serves as lead trial counsel in national and cross-border high-stakes technology and trade secret litigation, and advises boards and C-suites on governance and regulatory risk in artificial intelligence, blockchain, decentralized finance and cryptocurrency. He is the founder and longtime co-chair of the American Bar Association's AI and Blockchain Subcommittee and edits the trade secrets chapter of the ABA Business Law Section's Annual Review. He previously chaired Baker McKenzie's North America Trade Secrets Practice, and is ranked by Chambers USA in trade secrets. At Legal Cyber Academy he teaches on ransomware and forensics, and on artificial intelligence and its regulation in legal practice.