Correction: An earlier version of this story mistakenly referred to Bridgewater Associates as Bridgewater Advocates.

A series of filings in New York state court are shedding some light on the often hush-hush world of hedge funds and the lengths that Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund with $160 billion under management, has gone to in attempts to keep former employees from using allegedly proprietary trading strategies to form competing funds.