Joe Lavigne and Tom Hubert, partners in the Labor & Employment Practice Group in the New Orleans office, authored "(Not-So) Amicable Separations: Preventing, Investigating, and Responding to Trade Secret Misappropriation by Departing Employees" published by IPWatchdog. Joe and Tom shared helpful tips to protect company trade secret and confidential information from theft, liability, and employee mishandling of trade secret or proprietary information during each stage in the hiring, employment, and separation process.