{"id":1963,"date":"2024-07-25T21:17:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T21:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/sheppard-mullin-wins-injunction-for-financial-services-firm\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T15:22:00","slug":"sheppard-mullin-wins-injunction-for-financial-services-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/sheppard-mullin-wins-injunction-for-financial-services-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheppard Mullin Wins Injunction for Financial Services Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attorneys with Sheppard Mullin Richter &amp; Hampton successfully argued for a preliminary injunction against former employees accused of poaching clients from a Virginia-based financial services firm, disputing whether customer information was allowed to be taken under industry standards when the defendants resigned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A key dispute arose over the Protocol for Broker Recruiting\u2014an industry standard among broker-dealers and firms in the securities industry that governs the use of client data when employees move between firms\u2014and whether a \u201craiding exemption\u201d subjected the defendants to a two-year nonsolicitation provision, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/images.law.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/documents\/292\/187806\/d8235f6c-71cf-4211-bb3a-e85189740ffa-1.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an opinion filed July 23<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salomon &amp; Ludwin v. Winters<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatrustedlawyers.com\/bus-accident-lawyers.html\">Bus Accident Lawyers Near Me<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatrustedlawyers.com\/car-accident-lawyers.html\">Car accident lawyer near me<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys with Sheppard Mullin Richter &amp; Hampton successfully argued for a preliminary injunction against former employees accused of poaching clients from a Virginia-based financial services firm, disputing whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[212,184,600,2717,1891,2716,882],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-financial","tag-firm","tag-injunction","tag-mullin","tag-services","tag-sheppard","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1977,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions\/1977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}