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Monterey Law Firm L+G, LLP Becomes JRG Attorneys at Law

Managing Partner Jeff Gilles announced today that L+G, LLP, Attorneys at Law, will change the name of the law firm to Johnson, Rovella, Retterer, Rosenthal & Gilles, LLP and will be doing business as JRG Attorneys At Law, as of Dec. 1, 2017.

Monterey, CA, Nov. 30, 2017 — Managing Partner Jeff Gilles announced today that L+G, LLP, Attorneys at Law, will change the name of the law firm to Johnson, Rovella, Retterer, Rosenthal & Gilles, LLP and will be doing business as JRG Attorneys At Law, as of Dec. 1, 2017.

“JRG are my initials, and, they are also the initials of all of my partners,” said Gilles in a letter to staff and clients. “I have worked for over 38 years building a practice and relationships that allow for us to be leaders in our community and in our profession. I have also partnered with those that I truly feel will continue to build upon our legacy of teamwork, commitment and excellence.”

Gilles said the formal name for the Limited Liability Partnership will change to Johnson, Rovella, Retterer, Rosenthal & Gilles, LLP, but is asking that friends and colleagues call the firm simply, “JRG Attorneys at Law.”

“My partners Aaron Johnson, Paul Rovella, Jason Retterer, Bob Rosenthal and I are committed to ensuring that our team provides you the very best in legal services and we will always be Experts in Your Field,” Gilles writes in a letter to clients. “I am positive we have the staff, attorneys and experience to provide you the professional advice and consultation you require, now and for many years to come.”

The firm’s website will also be changed, to JRGattorneys.com.

About JRG Attorneys at Law

Jeff Gilles, Managing Partner of JRG Attorneys at Law, started his practice in the 1970s. Since then, he has assembled a team of attorneys and paralegals with offices in downtown Salinas, downtown Hollister, Monterey, as well as services to the South County and Paso Robles areas.

Gilles and his partners, associates, and staff offer legal services ranging from agriculture, business formations and transactions, civil litigation, estate planning, labor and employment, land use, municipal law, planning and zoning, cannabis business, and real estate.

The firm has more than 30 years of experience and more than 30 employees in its offices. For more information about JRG Attorneys at Law, please call (831) 754-2444 or visit JRGattorneys.com.

Contact:

Marci Bracco Cain

Chatterbox PR

Salinas, CA 93901

(831) 747-7455

http://www.JRGattorneys.com

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Represented by Monterey law firm Hudson Martin Ferrante Street Witten & June, PC, Echo was granted the rare TRO on June 18, 2014, against a former employee who has been accused of stealing valuable trade secrets and pursuing the company’s existing customers

Monterey, CA, June 27, 2014 – Under what circumstances may a former employee solicit his former employer’s customers? And can non-solicitation agreements ever be enforceable?

Those questions came closer to being answered in California — a state that rarely permits any action which is seen to inhibit or reduce competition — when a Santa Cruz superior court granted a temporary restraining order against a former employee of Echo Holdings LLC.

Represented by Monterey law firm Hudson Martin Ferrante Street Witten & June, PC, Echo was granted the rare TRO on June 18, 2014, against a former employee who has been accused of stealing valuable trade secrets and pursuing the company’s existing customers. Firm partner Amy June argued the case in one of the few states in which non-compete agreements are considered void as against public policy.

The state’s Business and Professions Code section 16600 provides that “Except as provided in this chapter, every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.” Exceptions to this rule are limited, and focus on the sale of a business or dissolution of a partnership. However, through adoption the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, California also makes it illegal for employees to misappropriate trade secrets from a former employer and to use those trade secrets to solicit customers of the former employer.

Hudson Martin Ferrante Street Witten & June, PC, has long represented One Stop Logistics, Inc., which acquired Echo in May of 2014. June, who argued the matter before Presiding Judge Paul Marigonda, agreed that the ruling was appropriate and necessary to protect the company’s interests in the area.

The decision comes on the heels of May’s ruling by Judge James Robertson of the San Francisco Superior Court in the case of Guardsmark v. Bowman.

In that case, Guardsmark, a company that provides security services, won a rare non-compete order against a former manager who had signed an agreement stating that he would refrain from misusing Guardsmark’s confidential information, but who secretly formed a competing security services company, Teton Security Services, Inc., and won a contract to work with a former Guardsmark client.

Judge Robertson ordered a permanent injunction prohibiting Bowman and Teton from contacting or soliciting any of Guardsmark’s current customers in San Francisco and from taking any action to induce any of Guardsmark’s current customers in San Francisco to discontinue service with Guardsmark.

Company Background Information:
Hudson Martin Ferrante Street Witten & June, PC provides value-added legal services to a variety of businesses, from entrepreneurial startups to multimillion-dollar nationwide enterprise. Since 1908 it has provided Monterey County families and business owners high-quality legal representation. The firm has played a big part in Monterey County’s rich history and has represented many of the area’s most notable figures, including John Steinbeck and Henry Miller. The attorneys represent and advise clients on a broad array of legal matters, including corporate law and governance, contracts, intellectual property, employment law, estate planning and administration, mergers and acquisitions, and litigation.

Hudson Martin’s experience counseling on a wide range of legal issues across a variety of industries has given the firm an exceptional understanding of their clients’ businesses — making them a true business partner. The firm provides the most responsive, efficient and effective legal strategies and solutions available. Hudson Martin is headquartered at 490 Calle Principal, Monterey, CA 93940, and recently opened an office in downtown Los Angeles.

For more information, call (831) 375-3151 or visit their web site at www.hudsonmartinwittenjune.com.

Contact:
Marci Bracco Cain
Hudson Martin Witten & June PC
490 Calle Principal
Monterey, CA 93940
831-375-3151
marci@chatterboxpublicrealtions.com
http://www.hudsonmartinwittenjune.com