Intellectual Property Theft

A professional staffing firm relied heavily on the use of a single spreadsheet that contained information on prospective employees. After a junior employee left to join a competitor, the company suspected their spreadsheet had been stolen. Upon issuance of an ex-parte temporary restraining order, forensic images were obtained from the competitor's computer systems and the data was analyzed on-site. The misappropriated spreadsheet was located on one of the computers. Following this discovery, the case was settled quickly in the plaintiff's favor.