COLLIN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION

CORPORATE COUNSEL SECTION VIRTUAL MEETING

(This is a joint meeting with Plano Bar Association)

MARCH 3, NOON

Topic: Key Contract Provisions When Hiring Software Developers

In the last few years, there has been an increase in lawsuits involving allegations of trade secrets theft and intellectual property theft between companies and their hired developers. In some cases, companies have claimed that their developers took confidential information they learned while developing an application and used it to create a competing business or shared it with competitors.  In other cases, developers accused companies of taking the developers’ software and re-creating it inhouse in order to avoid paying the developers’ royalties or fees.  This presentation will go over key contract provisions when hiring outside developers or software engineers that help minimize litigation in light of the existing litigation trends in this area of the law.

Speaker: Elisaveta "Leiza" Dolghih

She is the managing partner at Dolghih Law Group PLLC,  where she handles complex commercial, employment, non-competition, and trade secrets litigation in state and federal courts around the country.  Before opening her own firm, Leiza co-chaired a trade secrets practice at the sixth largest firm in the United States. 

CLE - CCBA Members: 1.0 Participatory Hour

 

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