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Sanctions Upheld Against Lawyer for Informing Client About Trade Secrets

By: Evan Hill The Recorder IP attorney told client about confidential information that had wound up in public court file. Twelve years into a trade secrets dispute between an animal vaccine manufacturer and a former employee, lawyers for the manufacturer attempted to submit a document under seal that contained the purported secrets. On Tuesday, California's 3rd District Court of Appeal in Wallis v. PHL Associates affirmed sanctions totaling almost $44,000 for what the former employee and her attorney, Joanna Mendoza, did next. Despite a long-standing order that excluded the parties and the public from viewing documents labeled confidential and filed under seal, Mendoza, of Sacramento, Calif.'s Malovos & Mendoza, told her client, Dale Wallis, that the document was in the public file. To continue reading this interesting article click here.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on November 27, 2008 (boomark / email).