Legal Question in Business Law in California

An employee of my Company accessed company emails after she no longer worked for the company. She also deleted emails and forwarded emails which were recipes and other proprietary information to her personal email account. Additionally she was working on her own competing business during the day while she should have been doing work she was being paid to do for my company. She also was using all the contacts of my company, from designers to accountant? What recourse do I have?

Can I file a criminal lawsuit as well.


Asked on 11/24/13, 10:40 am

2 Answers from Attorneys

You have a number if civil and criminal charges you can pursue. The starting point would be to get a lawyer to write a cease and desist letter and demand return of all proprietary information and materials.

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Answered on 11/24/13, 10:47 am
Terry A. Nelson Nelson & Lawless

You have potential grounds for a civil lawsuit for damages. Criminal charges are filed by the DA, and are started by you trying to file a police report on any crimes committed.

If the amount of provable damages is sufficient, you could justify filing the civil lawsuit in Superior Court, but at the least you should start as indicated by Mr. McCormick, with a 'nasty-gram' demand letter from counsel. If serious about hiring counsel to help in this, feel free to contact me.

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Answered on 11/24/13, 3:53 pm


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