Matthew Triggs - Proskauer Rose - Ethics Violations - Supreme Court Conflict of Interest
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Matthew Triggs is a Partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department of Proskauer Rose According to Their Website.
Matthew Triggs resident in the Florida office. Matthew Triggs Esq. has actively and aggressively litigated a wide variety of matters ranging from complex commercial disputes to securities class actions, broker-dealer arbitrations, real property title disputes and employment discrimination claims, having represented clients such as Club Med, Office Depot, Chase Manhattan and Infinity Radio, Inc. according the Proskauer Rose Website.
Matthew Triggs Esq. litigates extensively in both state and federal court and frequently counsels clients with respect to alternative forms of dispute resolution.
Matthew Triggs Esq., lives in West Palm Beach with his wife, Amy, and their three children. He serves on the Board of the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, and is a Fellow of the Florida Bar Foundation, a statewide not-for-profit organization which promotes the charitable interests of Florida's legal profession.
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http://www.proskauer.com/professionals/matthew-triggs/
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Non-Compete & Trade Secrets
Overview
In our highly competitive, knowledge-driven global marketplace, a company’s ability to protect its confidential information and other intellectual property, human capital and client relationships is critical. Proskauer’s Non-Compete & Trade Secrets Group represents and counsels clients on all aspects of non-competition and trade secret law.
Our clients look to us to litigate when their key employees resign and join competitors and look to us for advice (and, when necessary, to defend litigation) when hiring a competitor’s employees. Our practice includes: day-to-day counseling on the hiring and firing of employees possessing confidential information and customer relationships, and the drafting of confidentiality, non-compete, garden leave provisions and other agreements, along with policy manuals on information ownership and protection. We also counsel clients on a range of compensation plan matters, such as designing “golden handcuffs” to retain key executives or protect intellectual property, confidential information and customer and workforce relationships. Our client base ranges from public to private companies, private equity firms, hedge funds and asset managers, as well as individual executives, founders and business owners.
The law in this area varies widely in the U.S. and overseas and, in most jurisdictions, the resolution of a non-compete case will turn on all the facts and circumstances. This makes predicting and planning difficult and puts a premium on the actual high-stakes litigation experience we possess, which covers claims of employee-raiding and theft of trade secrets, including litigation under the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Our lawyers have handled literally hundreds of trade secret and non-compete matters and bring significant experience from multiple legal disciplines, including corporate, executive compensation, labor and employment, intellectual property and, of course, litigation. The five co-heads of the group alone have more than 100 years of collective experience in their practice area.
In fact, our group was recognized in the top tiers of the trade secrets section of US Legal 500 for our reputation in the marketplace and for handling more cases in this important area than any other firm, with Boca Raton-based practice co-head Allan Weitzman and his team receiving individual recognition and practice co-head Steven Kayman recognized for being “incredibly knowledgeable about all manner of trade secrets issues” for his handling of numerous litigations and counseling representations.
Areas of Focus
Employee Movement
Non-Compete Agreements
Non-Compete/Trade Secret Litigation
Non-Solicitation Agreements
Trade Secrets
Unfair Competition
“Golden Handcuff” Compensation/Equity/Retention Arrangements
Key Representations
Invatec in a multi-district litigation commenced by Johnson & Johnson Corporation and a subsidiary, alleging that Invatec improperly raided its sales force and aided and abetted breaches of non-competition agreements and duties of loyalty. We successfully negotiated a global resolution that allowed all but one of the J&J sales associates at issue to immediately commence employment with Invatec.
Satyam Computer Services in a hotly contested case arising from a joint venture with Venture Global Engineering, an outsourcing company for engineering services for the automotive industry. The London Court of International Arbitration awarded Satyam all of the relief it sought, including its right to purchase VGE's 50 percent interest in the joint venture at book value, reimbursement of substantial royalties paid to VGE and a release from a non-compete agreement.
Corporate Express in an important ruling by the Supreme Court of Florida confirming that a successor employer can enforce a non-compete agreement signed with a former employer even when the agreement does not contain a successors and assigns clause and where the employees have not consented to its assignment
ChicagoTitle/Ticor Title Insurance Company in obtaining a federal court injunction, later affirmed by the Second Circuit, to enforce a non-compete against a top sales person leaving to join a competitor. The case made important law on irreparable injury, pre-departure solicitation and other aspects of non-compete law.
http://www.proskauer.com/practices/non-compete-and-trade-secrets/
Fiduciary Litigation
Overview
Litigation between trust beneficiaries, trustees, executors and personal representatives is on the rise. Banks and trust companies are at particularly high risk for exposure to claims. With current investment scandals and volatile markets further raising tensions between these parties, there is no indication that this trend will subside anytime soon.
Our Fiduciary Litigation Group draws on our century-old trust and estates practice and the extensive trial experience of our litigators to help institutional and individual fiduciaries design their practices to avoid litigation. We take the unusual step of conducting periodic surveys of banks and trust companies to determine current best industry practices and pass on the results of those surveys to our clients through educational seminars. This process ensures that our clients can institute best practices aimed at preventing unnecessary litigation.
When conflict cannot be avoided, we put our vast experience in alternative dispute resolution to work. We have a greater than 90 percent success rate in resolving matters quickly and efficiently through negotiation, arbitration and mediation. However, in the rare instances when matters are not resolved, our lawyers are skilled at handling trials. In addition, our experience representing trustees means that we can understand both sides of the issues, yielding positive results when representing beneficiaries who challenge estate planning documents or fiduciary actions.
We have a broad geographical reach with fiduciary litigation capabilities in major markets throughout the U.S., including New York, Florida and California. Few firms are able to combine our depth of knowledge regarding fiduciary issues with such a national platform.
Areas of Focus
Counseling
Trust Intake
Administration Procedures
Tax Planning
Controversial Trustee Actions
Educational Seminars
Litigation
Claims Against Fiduciaries
Will and Trust Contests
Guardianship Disputes
Charitable and Exempt Organization Controversies
Key Representations
Trustee of a trust created by celebrity entertainer Britney Spears under a separate conservatorship proceeding under intense media circumstances
An individual in a will contest based on a Valentine's Day card written to our client. Though the court would not admit the card as a holographic will, it would allow it to prove the terms of decedent's lost will, and based on that conclusion, the court awarded the bulk of decedent's assets to our client.
Large multi-national bank, which was named executor under a decedent's will, in a challenge of that will by her children. The matter. which we were ultimately able to settle after three years of litigation, involved legal proceedings in both federal and state courts and the production of over 100,000 pages of documents.
Memberships
Palm Beach County Bar Association
Fifteenth Judicial Circuit
(Former Member of Grievance Committee)
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