HIRECounsel Can Proceed With Trade Secret Suit Against Ex-Worker

HIRECounsel D.C. LLC can pursue contract and trade-secret claims against its former managing director of client relations, who it says jumped to a rival after surreptitiously snagging pricing, sales projection, and other confidential information, a federal judge in D.C. ruled.

The legal staffing and document review project company sued Kilian Connolly after he left suddenly in August 2020 and joined Beacon Hill Staffing LLC’s rival legal staffing specialty division. Less than two weeks before he resigned—which was effective immediately—Connolly forwarded to his personal email account a confidential internal report he was only able to access by copying a password from ...