Truth be told, it's not every day that we're fortunate to obtain a result for our client like this.
And we were able to secure this result with our client paying less than $10,000 in legal fees.
his client reached out to us after he was already facing a temporary restraining order that had been issued against him by the trial court, directing him to turn over any materials in his possession that belonged (or ostensibly belonged) to his former employer. That employer had alleged that he had surreptitiously downloaded a litany of their confidential company information, particularly their proprietary product development updates, budgets,
revenues, timelines, business strategies, client names, contracts, event information, sales data, meeting agendas, and communications with vendors to his personal cell phone, and therefore not only posed a terrible danger to their business, they claimed he had already damaged their business.
This client was truly in a tough spot, because while there were some robust defenses to a number of their claims, the only way to prove the veracity of his defenses was by taking a deep dive into the particular facts of what had transpired - and that would inherently take a significant amount of legal time, and cost him tens of thousands of dollars - money that he simply didn't have, as he had been out of work due to illness for quite some time.
Luckily, we were able to convice opposing counsel that even if they were to prevail at trial, there really was no proverbial "pot of gold" awaiting their client, as they too were aware that our client had been largely out of work, and had therefore depleted many of his financial resources.
