Companies of all sizes and in various industries call upon Erik Weibust for his practical and thoughtful advice—and his aggressive representation in high-stakes trade secret, non-compete, and commercial litigation.
Many of the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, technology, financial services, staffing, and insurance companies look to Erik for thoughtful and practical advice concerning how best to protect their trade secrets and customer relationships from misappropriation by former employees, ex-business partners, competitors, and hostile actors in the United States and abroad, and to avoid liability when hiring from competitors. When necessary, clients rely on Erik for aggressive representation in litigation, where he has won substantial victories in court and at the negotiating table, including broad-reaching injunctive relief and multimillion-dollar payouts, in trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition, and breach of restrictive covenant cases.
In addition to his trade secret and restrictive covenant practice, Erik represents clients in commercial litigation matters, including franchise, distribution, and real estate disputes, to name a few. He has substantial case management experience from the early stages of litigation through the appeals process, including investigations, discovery, mediation, and trial and arbitration, as well as litigation avoidance.
His national litigation practice provides him with particular insight into how courts and arbitrators, in a variety of jurisdictions, analyze relevant issues, keeping him abreast of cutting-edge legal arguments, industry trends, and litigation strategies that he brings to bear in all of his representations. Erik regularly publishes articles and speaks locally and nationally about trade secret and restrictive covenant law, and he has been quoted on these topics in publications such as The Washington Post, Law360, and Ignites (Financial Times). He is also an editor of Epstein Becker Green’s Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility Blog.
Before joining Epstein Becker Green, Erik was a Partner at an international law firm, where he served as co-chair of that firm’s Litigation Finance Task Force and co-chaired the Boston office’s Litigation Department. Before that, he clerked for the Honorable Peter W. Hall of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Erik W. Weibust
- Spilling Secrets: Non-Compete Agreements in 2023: What Employers Need to Know [Podcast] - (Posted On Friday, October 27, 2023)
- NLRB Issues Complaint Against Company For Maintenance And Enforcement Of Noncompete And Non-Solicit Provisions - (Posted On Thursday, September 14, 2023)
- Spilling Secrets Podcast: When a Restrictive Covenant Dispute Goes Beyond the Injunction Phase [PODCAST] - (Posted On Wednesday, August 16, 2023)
- Employment Law this Week Episode 310 - NLRB General Counsel Issues Memo on Non-Competes [Podcast, Video] - (Posted On Thursday, July 27, 2023)
- An Update on the New York Noncompete Ban: It is Unlikely the Governor Will Sign it Anytime Soon - (Posted On Thursday, July 06, 2023)
- What Do Cancelling Student Loan Debt and Banning Noncompetes Have in Common? The Supreme Court’s Recent Student Loan Decision May Reveal How it Would Rule on the FTC’s Proposed Noncompete Ban - (Posted On Wednesday, July 05, 2023)
- Minneapolis Federal Reserve Study Undermines Assumptions About Noncompetes Harming Employees on the Eve of Minnesota’s Noncompete Ban - (Posted On Monday, June 26, 2023)
- Spilling Secrets: How to Pursue Damages in Trade Secrets Litigation [PODCAST] - (Posted On Tuesday, June 20, 2023)
- Why Is Virtually Nobody Talking Seriously About New York’s Potential Noncompete Ban? - (Posted On Thursday, June 15, 2023)
- Podcast: How to Pursue Damages in Trade Secrets Litigation – Employment Law This Week - (Posted On Wednesday, June 14, 2023)