Attorney McGuigan began his career as a private investigator and conducted investigations
into trade secret misappropriation cases across the United States, and most notably a case involving the theft of trade secrets in Mexico City.
and which defines a civil tort and remedies for
misappropriation of
trade secrets; (2) enforcement of the general duty of loyalty that employees (the people most likely to be given access to a
trade secret) have, at least while they are on the payroll, not to disclose their employers» proprietary information to others; and (3) enforcement of contracts, including confidentiality agreements, entered
into by people and companies given access to
trade secrets.