For the third year in a row, Daily Journal has named San Francisco partner Eric Akira Tate in its 2022 list of “Top Trade Secrets Lawyers.”
Eric, who co-chairs Morrison Foerster’s Global Employment and Labor Group, was recognized for his work on bet-the-company trade secrets and employee mobility disputes across the United States and internationally. Eric also represents boards of directors in sensitive internal investigations and disputes with executives, and companies in whistleblower, wrongful termination, discrimination and harassment, wage-and-hour, and other employment litigation. In addition, Eric counsels companies on employment law compliance and transactional matters, including enforceability of restrictive covenants and other personnel policies and procedures throughout the United States, employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and collective bargaining and traditional labor relations.
Eric is a leader in the American Bar Association’s (ABA’s) Labor and Employment (LEL) Section and LEL’s Employment Rights and Responsibilities (ERR) Committee, serving as co-chair of the Covenants Not to Compete and Trade Secrets Subcommittee. Eric has also served as a past co-chair of the ABA LEL Annual Meeting Committee, the LEL Section Annual CLE Conference, ERR’s Alternative Dispute Resolution, Employment At-Will and Collateral Torts, and Worker Dislocation Subcommittees. In 2019, Eric was elected to the governing Council for the Labor and Employment Section. He also served on the Planning Committee for the National Employment Law Council’s Annual Conference.
Profiles for all of the winning lawyers have been featured in a special Top Trade Secrets Lawyers issue of Daily Journal published on October 5th.
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