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
- Podcast: How to Pursue Damages in Trade Secrets Litigation – Employment Law This Week - (Posted On Wednesday, June 14, 2023)
- An “Overbroad” Noncompete – the NLRB Has Found Its First Target - (Posted On Tuesday, June 13, 2023)
- NLRB Finds Its First Noncompete Target—and Its Charges Go Well Beyond an “Overbroad” Noncompete - (Posted On Tuesday, June 13, 2023)
- 10,000 Lakes and . . . No Noncompetes? Minnesota Passes Law Banning Non-Competes Effective July 1, 2023 - (Posted On Friday, May 26, 2023)
- Spilling Secrets: How to Secure Key Employees in Health Care M&A Transactions [Podcast] - (Posted On Tuesday, May 23, 2023)
- FTC Proposes Ban on Non-Competes [PODCAST] - (Posted On Wednesday, February 15, 2023)
- FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson, the Lone Dissenting Voice on the FTC’s Proposed Noncompete Ban, Resigns - (Posted On Tuesday, February 14, 2023)
- FTC Announces Public Forum on Proposed Noncompete Ban - (Posted On Tuesday, February 07, 2023)
- Here Come the Legislators – U.S. Senators Reintroduce Legislation That Would Ban Noncompetes and Empower the FTC to Regulate Them - (Posted On Thursday, February 02, 2023)
- 100 Industry Organizations Request Extension of Comment Period on FTC’s Proposed Noncompete Ban - (Posted On Tuesday, January 31, 2023)