Daily Briefs July 7

Miller Canfield lawyer presents on protecting intellectual property
Matthew P. Allen, a principal in the Troy office of the law firm of Miller Canfield, recently presented on “Economic Espionage – Protecting Your Intellectual Property Worldwide,” along with the FBI Detroit Division.

Allen, FBI Special Agent Chris Bartolo and other leaders from the FBI Detroit Division discussed the impact of intellectual property theft and corporate espionage in the global marketplace. Allen and Special Agent Bartolo discussed the various domestic and international resources available to companies to protect their valuable intellectual property assets, as well as how to handle internal corporate IP audits and investigations of alleged IP misappropriation and how best to work with the government in parallel civil and criminal IP proceedings.  

Allen is a business, securities, and intellectual property litigator and trial lawyer who has tried and arbitrated a wide variety of intellectual property, securities, and business disputes in a wide array of forums. His significant intellectual property litigation experience includes representing companies in international corporate espionage investigations and prosecutions, and in national and international IP litigation and arbitration. He received his J.D. from Wayne State University Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Wayne Law Review, and his B.A. from the State University of New York College at Fredonia. He also served as a judicial law clerk in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

He resides in Troy, Michigan.

Honigman attorney named to Kadima board of directors

Evan J. Leibhan, an attorney in Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP’s Corporate and Securities Department, has been named to the Kadima board of directors.  Kadima is a nonprofit, nonsectarian mental health agency that provides residential and support services for children and adults with mental illness in Oakland County.

Kadima was established in 1984 in response to conditions that existed in the adult foster care system. Kadima’s first group home (Southfield) was funded by five families and this residence continues to provide housing to six adult clients.  Kadima now has 25 homes in the community where clients live in a safe and nurturing environment.

At Honigman, Leibhan focuses his practice on acquisitions, private equity, financing, securities and general corporate law.  He earned a J.D., cum laude, from Wayne State University and is a member of the Order of the Coif.  He received a B.A., with high honors, in General Business Administration from Michigan State University.

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