Jeanah Park

When an employee leaves a company to join a competitor, Jeanah Park fights to protect her client’s trade secrets. And when her clients make competitive hires, she defends them against claims of trade secrets theft and breach of restrictive covenants.

Jeanah also helps corporations of all sizes resolve high stakes business disputes. With clients ranging from small businesses to large, publicly traded corporations, Jeanah understands their businesses and their tolerance for risk, and based on the facts and contracts involved, she develops practical and realistic strategies to meet their goals. She uses strategic problem solving to avoid litigation where possible and uses litigation as a business tool where necessary.

In her work involving restrictive covenants, Jeanah’s clients benefit from her knowledge of the constantly changing laws and regulations. She deploys that knowledge to the fullest extent possible to protect her clients’ intellectual property and investment when an employee leaves, and to defend her clients when they hire people who are bound by restrictive covenants.

With over twenty years of litigation experience, Jeanah maintains a national commercial litigation practice encompassing complex business disputes. She helps her clients navigate contractual disputes, first seeking a resolution without resorting to litigation, then aggressively defending or prosecuting the contractual and common law claims. Jeanah has defended clients against claims of breach of fiduciary duty, securities fraud, and has represented public and private companies in shareholder disputes and other disputes involving unfair competition and defamation.

Experience

• Obtained emergency injunctive relief for a client against a former employee and his new employer after the employee misappropriated confidential information and violated his restrictive covenants, leading to a favorable settlement.
• Prevailed for a client in an arbitration involving the termination of a multiyear contract.
• Prevailed on a motion to dismiss breach-of-contract and common law tort claims in federal district court on behalf of a client in a case against a former franchisee.
• After a weeklong jury trial, obtained a favorable judgment on behalf of a medical practice in a restrictive covenant dispute that included an attorneys’ fee award of over $1 million.
• Prevailed in a weeklong AAA arbitration on behalf of a private equity client in a restrictive covenant dispute against a former franchisee.