Robert Milligan—Seyfarth partner and co-chair of the firm’s Trade Secrets, Computer Fraud & Non-Compete practice—was named a 2022 Top Trade Secrets Lawyer in California by The Daily Journal. Robert is a leading voice in this intricate area of law, with a practice primarily focused on trade secrets, non-compete, and data theft/protection litigation, investigations, and transactional work. Robert represents multinational companies in a variety of key industries in trade secrets and restrictive covenant litigation and routinely provides valuable transactional advice on how to best protect valuable intellectual property assets in significant business transactions and has successfully obtained and defeated temporary restraining orders, preliminary injunctions, and permanent injunctions involving trade secret and restrictive covenants matters throughout the country and prepared appropriate trade secret protection agreement/policies and programs for many Fortune 50 companies. With a focus on digital forensics, Robert has assisted clients in navigating internal investigations and litigation and leveraged “right size” forensic work and detailed witness interviews to obtain successful outcomes. In addition to earning this spot as one of California’s top trade secrets lawyers, Robert has been recognized as a Leading Lawyer by The Legal 500 for trade secrets work.
