CENTURY CITY and SAN FRANCISCO, December 9, 2024: In its inaugural USA Trade Secrets Rankings for 2024, World IP Review (WIPR) has recognized Morgan Lewis’s trade secrets practice and partners Seth Gerber and Michael Weil. The guide spotlights leading law firms and lawyers at the forefront of trade secrets law in the United States.
This year, WIPR listed Morgan Lewis as a “highly recommended” law firm for trade secrets matters. Additionally, partner Seth Gerber is recognized as “highly recommended” and partner Michael Weil as “recommended” for trade secrets matters.
As leader of the Trade Secrets Working Group in the firm’s intellectual property practice, Seth focuses on trade secret, restrictive covenant, and employee mobility matters. An accomplished lead trial lawyer, Seth has successfully defended complex mass departure cases to verdict after lengthy jury trials and has obtained and defeated motions for temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions in jurisdictions across the United States.
Michael represents employers in a wide range of employment disputes, with a focus on class and representative actions asserting multimillion dollars in damages and high stakes noncompete, employee mobility, and trade secrets matters. Michael has a deep background in trade secrets and noncompete cases involving a variety of intellectual properties, including organic chemistry, genetic sequencing, chemistry lab processes, client lists, and shipping cost information, among many others.
Access Morgan Lewis’s profile in WIPR’s 2024 USA Trade Secret Rankings >>