Trade Secrets: Law and Practice

David W. Quinto helped found Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, an international trial firm known for handling complex, high-profile cases and later was a partner in the Los Angeles office of international law firm Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. While in private practice, he represented numerous "Fortune 500" companies in intellectual property matters, was a World Intellectual Property Organization domain name dispute resolution panelist, and for 27 years was principally responsible for protecting the intellectual property rights of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Following a four-year stint as the inhouse general counsel of VidAngel, Inc., David accepted an offer to become of counsel to One LLP, an intellectual property and entertainment law firm with offices in Orange and Los Angeles Counties in California. David previously authored a treatise analyzing the application of tort law to the Internet entitled Law of Internet Disputes (Aspen Law and Business, 2002–04) and a chapter in Trade Marks at the Limit (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006). He is annually voted a Southern California Super Lawyer and has been included in LawDragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America. He attended Harvard Law School.

Stuart H. Singer is a partner with Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP, a firm specializing in complex, high-stakes litigation. As a trial lawyer for over 25 years, Mr. Singer has successfully handled many significant and complex cases before judges, juries, arbitration panels, and appellate courts throughout the United States. He has won trials for major businesses in Florida, New York, California, Georgia, and Colorado. His practice has included intellectual property and trade secret matters, as well as antitrust, securities, RICO, and constitutional law cases. Mr. Singer has been included in LawDragon's 500 Leading Lawyers in America, as well as in Best Lawyers in America and Chambers U.S.A. Guide to Leading Lawyers for Business. Mr. Singer is a member of the American Law Institute and has spoken widely before professional audiences on litigation topics. He attended Harvard Law School, where he was elected president of the Harvard Law Review, and from 1981 to 1983, served as a law clerk at the United States Supreme Court for Associate Justice Byron R. White.

Eric J. Emanuel was one of the two founding partners of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in 1986, from which he recently retired. He has litigated a wide range of civil cases of many types and sizes in state and federal courts, both at the trial and appellate levels. Although his career has been primarily focused on business litigation, along the way he has handled such diverse cases as pro bono unlawful detainer actions in Municipal Court, habeas petitions in the Mental Health Department of the Los Angeles Superior Court, and a prisoner’s rights trial in the Central District of California. He has been a guest lecturer at the UCLA, USC, Pepperdine, and Southwestern schools of law. He is a graduate of the UCLA Law School and earned his undergraduate degree from St. John’s University, in Collegeville, MN.