John Siegal

April 27, 2021 | New York Law Journal

What will become of this law office world we knew and the habits we had before the pandemic hit?

By John Siegal

10 minute read

May 21, 2020 | New York Law Journal

The pandemic is rapidly forcing changes in lawyer behavior and lifestyle that are accelerating the transformation of our business environment into a permanent 21st century world of electronic communications, virtual offices and networked interactions.

By John Siegal

8 minute read

March 24, 2020 | New York Law Journal

What are the things that we don't want to go back to normal in the practice of law? Can we use this crisis as an opportunity to get rid of—permanently—some of the inefficient, annoying aspects of litigation?

By John Siegal

9 minute read

July 20, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Two recent cases, Behunin v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County, 215 Cal. Rptr. 3d 475 (Cal. Ct. App. 2017), in California, and another in New York, Gottwald v. Sebert, 58 Misc. 3d 625 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Co. 2017), show that keeping communications strategic planning confidential is not so straightforward. And, these decisions open the door to increased chances for litigants to seek discovery into the litigation public relations efforts of their adversaries.

By John Siegal and Tiffany A. Miao

12 minute read

March 11, 2016 | New York Law Journal

John Siegal writes that suddenly noncompetes and trade secrets are public policy issues, with Congress moving ahead with the first federal trade secrets statute and several states adopting new noncompete statutes. New York's policy on employee mobility is set through thousands of commercial disputes involving noncompetes, trade secrets, and fiduciary duties decided on a case-by-case basis. So, how is New York's judge-made common law of employee mobility evolving in light of the economic policy questions raised in the broader debate?

By John Siegal

12 minute read

April 01, 2014 | New York Law Journal

By John Siegal

2 minute read

September 15, 2003 | National Law Journal

First, do no harm. That founding oath of the medical profession applies equally to lawyers working with public relations professionals in jointly handling matters that place their clients in the spotlight of media or governmental scrutiny. If the working relationship between lawyers and public relations professionals engaged on behalf of common clients is handled improperly, the professionals can cause more harm than they provide help to the client's interests and public image.

By John Siegal and Jeremy R. FeinbergSpecial to the National Law Journal

8 minute read

August 21, 2008 | New York Law Journal

John Siegal, a partner at Baker Hostetler, writes that for the Broadcast Employees Freedom to Work Act, �202-k of the Labor Law, prohibits a broadly defined group of media industry employers from requiring or seeking to enforce postemployment noncompetes affecting all but "management employees."

By John Siegal

10 minute read

April 15, 2009 | New York Law Journal

John Siegal, a partner at Baker Hostetler, and Francesca Ambrosio, an associate with the firm, write that despite its meager origins in a passing comment at the end of a decision, the presumption of irreparable injury in trade secrets cases has had a long and dominant ride as the prevailing legal doctrine--until now. The Second Circuit recently decided that the presumption does not apply in cases where the trade secrets are simply being used for commercial purposes, as trade secrets misappropriators often have just as much of a profit interest in protecting the confidentiality of the information as the original owner of the secret. Only when the secrets at issue might be disseminated to a wider audience may the extraordinary remedy of an injunction be warranted.

By John Siegal and Francesca Ambrosio

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