| Biography:
Steve Kayman is a New York-based partner in Proskauer's Litigation and Dispute
Resolution Department. He also chairs the Firm-wide Non-Compete & Trade
Secrets Practice Group.
The NC & TS Practice Group assists clients in both litigated and non-litigated
matters involving the movement of employees between competitors, the appropriation
of trade secrets, employee "raiding," and the drafting and negotiation
of employment and other agreements containing restrictive covenants. Clients
have called on the Group's services when their employees have "jumped ship"
to a competitor, when hiring a competitor's employees, and to design agreements,
policies and procedures aimed at protecting the client's intellectual property,
confidential information and relationships with its customer base and workforce.
Steve has done substantial work in all these related areas -- for clients such
as CitiGroup, McKinsey & Company, MetLife, AIG, The Daily News, MBIA,
Chicago Title/Ticor, and Euro RSCG, among many others -- and also has written
and lectured about trade secrets and non-competes.
Apart from the trade secret and non-compete arena, Steve considers himself
to be a general commercial litigator qualified to assist clients in almost any
kind of business-related dispute. He has practiced extensively before federal
and state courts in New York and other jurisdictions, doing both trial and appellate
work. He has represented clients in many major segments of the American economy,
including the financial sector, technology, media and entertainment, fashion
and real estate. Steve has also had substantial experience with alternative
dispute resolution, including practice before the AAA, the SEC, the NYSE, the
NASD, mediators and "rent-a-judges." Intellectual property, securities,
bankruptcy, insurance and false advertising are among the many fields of law
in which Steve has litigated substantial matters.
A graduate of Trinity College and the University of Virginia School of Law,
Steve began his career with Proskauer in 1981 and has been a partner since 1989.
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