For over six years, Megan O’Laughlin defended her client against misappropriation of trade secrets in a case filed in a federal court in the Western District of Texas—getting many of the claims thrown out on summary judgment. And she recently won a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that prevents the plaintiff from filing the case in another forum.
“The plaintiff filed this case in federal court and we spent a lot of money defending it,” said O’Laughlin, an attorney with Dallas’ Hitchcock Evert. “We didn’t want to have to start over.”
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