When An Employee Goes to Work For A Competitor
When an employee who has knowledge of a company’s customers, business practices, and perhaps its trade secrets or other strategic information, suddenly quits to start a competing business or to go to work for a competitor, that employee and his or her employer will have important matters to consider and potential litigation choices to make. » Download PDF

Some Claims That May Arise Under Louisiana's Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law
Louisiana’s Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law (“UTP Law”) proscribes “unfair methods of competition” and “unfair or deceptive acts and practices” which occur “in the conduct of “any trade or commerce.” » Download PDF

The Lawyer’s Place in American Society
The exercise of legal power has always been viewed with mixed feelings in America... Yet Americans have turned repeatedly to lawyers, before all others, for solutions to the problems of everyday life in a rough-and-tumble and vigorous democracy... [T]he United States of America, in a sense, is nothing but a law. That law is our Constitution – the United States has never existed separate and distinct from it. Thus, "the law" inhabits an especially exalted plane in the American soul – a position which is probably not shared by the law of other countries. » Download PDF

Identifying Breaches of Fiduciary Duties
A claim for breach of fiduciary duty can arise in an enormously broad range of settings and is a relatively simple claim to assert. It should be considered in almost any formal relationship in which a relationship of trust is perceived to have arisen. The attorneys at Hamilton, Brown & Babst are available to consult concerning the issues discussed in this paper.
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