Poaching Clients and Stealing Information: how to reduce the risk to your business
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About the event
Business owners should think about the risk of departing or ex-employees stealing clients or taking business critical information with them. With so many people changing jobs at the moment, now is a good time to consider the solutions you can put in place to protect your business and reduce the risk of haemorrhaging clients or losing valuable information.
Richard Gvero and Miranda Mulligan from the Longmores Employment team will talk about the measures you can put in place when employing staff or engaging a consultant:
- restrictive covenants
- consultancy agreements
John Wiblin from the Dispute Resolution team at Longmores will explain what happens if things go wrong:
- injunctions
- search orders and the alternatives
- the process to follow if information or customers are stolen
- protecting intellectual property
Speakers
Joint Senior Partner, Head of Commercial and Employment
01992 305210
Richard specialises in employment law and regularly helps businesses and individuals with a broad spectrum of staffing issues, including company restructures and redundancy, disciplinary and grievance processes, TUPE and other employment aspects of commercial contracts and all types of employment dispute, including unfair dismissal and discrimination claims. His team is ranked in The Legal 500 and he is personally ranked in Chambers UK.
Associate Solicitor specialising in Employment Law
01992 305121
miranda.mulligan@longmores.law
Miranda is a solicitor specialising in advising businesses on employment law. She has experience bringing and defending employment tribunal proceedings, as well as being an accredited mediator. Miranda also helps her clients with contracts of employment, consultancy agreements and settlement agreements. Miranda is ranked as a Rising Star in The Legal 500 and as an Associate to Watch in Chambers UK.
Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution
01992 305252
John has had a distinguished legal career dealing with all manner of commercial disputes. He specialises in shareholder and partnership disputes, theft and misuse of commercially confidential information, copyright and trademark infringement, and matters relating to the recruitment industry. He is a Solicitor-Advocate with the right to appear in any court in England and Wales and a qualified Arbitrator and Mediator. John is also individually ranked in Chambers UK and his team is ranked in The Legal 500.
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We are co-hosting this event with the Hertfordshire Chamber of Commerce, and it is free to attend.
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