Corporate espionage involves unauthorized access, theft, and use of a company’s confidential and proprietary information to gain a commercial advantage. This causes billions of dollars in economic damages annually and can result in significant civil and criminal penalties for businesses and individuals, even if they are unaware of the misconduct.
The digitization of the workplace, greater worker mobility, expanded work-from-home arrangements, and inexpensive data storage have created unprecedented challenges in maintaining data security. Insiders such as executives, employees, contractors, and vendors are increasingly copying vast amounts of data to personal devices without company knowledge. While corporate resources often focus on external cybersecurity threats, internal threats from corporate espionage have sharply increased, causing financial and reputational harm to companies.
How We Can Help
Corporate espionage investigations and litigation are highly time-sensitive and require skill and experience in labor and employment, intellectual property, business litigation, white-collar criminal defense, antitrust, cybersecurity, and privacy. Our team combines legal and technical skills, including digital forensics, to help clients understand, scope, triage, and remediate damage from economic spying.
We provide precise legal and technical guidance to address current vulnerabilities and mitigate future threats. This includes working with clients’ operations, IT, human resources, and other stakeholders to handle investigations and litigation, strengthen internal policies, and provide training to mitigate risks associated with corporate espionage.