Winston Hosts CRBEN Quarterly Meeting on Trade Secrets Theft and Protection

Winston & Strawn’s Chicago office hosted the Chicago Regional Business Ethics Network (CRBEN) quarterly meeting on January 9, 2018. Partner Steve Grimes, co-leader of the firm’s Global Privacy and Data Security Task Force, lead a presentation on trade secrets theft and protection, which explored the following questions:

• Why are trade secrets cases rapidly increasing?
• What can compliance professionals do to mitigate their trade secret risk?
• What mistakes are companies making before and after trade secret theft occurs?

Steve is a former federal prosecutor, an experienced trial lawyer, and a former chief compliance officer and senior litigation counsel for a global publicly-traded Fortune 500 company. Steve’s practice focuses on compliance and data security counseling, sensitive internal investigations, and complex litigation.