Legal Question in Employment Law in California

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Your question gave too few details. Trade secrets are a serious matter in business law. Businesses have a right to protect proprietary information. If you signed an employment contract or non-disclosure agreement upon termination or even before, you will be held accountable to this agreement. Additionally, if the information you obtained is valuable and protected by the company, they will have every right to pursue you.

Your options would be to: 1) try to represent yourself, and likely suffer a huge judgment against you, 2) hire an attorney to protect your interests in litigation, or 3) hire an attorney to negotiate a settlement agreement to make this problem go away, or 4) do nothing and probably suffer the same fate as #1 above. To hire an attorney you will need to have resources (ie money).

Let me know if I can be of further help.

Sincerely,

Sergio Benavides

www.benavideslawfirm.com

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One of the best defenses is a good offense. You should talk with an experienced employment law attorney to see if YOU have any claims against HIM that you can assert.

A lot more information is needed before I could give you better advice, though.

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Settle, sue, or walk away. Without more facts, no opinion is worth anything. If you are asserting claims against the company, or can, get a good attorney. If they are threatening or suing you -- back to your options.

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If you do not have money to hire an attorney to defend, call opposing counsel and ask him what his client really wants! Tell him you have no money, so he can't get that, so what will it take to put an end to this? These cases usually are meant to send a signal to intimidate other employees, so there may be a way to resolve it without the exchange of money. In any case, never sign a legal agreement without getting the advice of an attorney.

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I need more details to determine whether or not this is a case that an attorney may take on a contingency fee agreement. Call me directly at 16192223504.