Nicholas J. Schneider

Overview

Nick Schneider is a member (partner) with Eckert Seaman’s Intellectual Property Litigation and Commercial Litigation Groups. He helps his clients by managing large, complex litigations implicating a wide range of intellectual property and commercial rights. Nick has litigated trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, and employee mobility and noncompete cases across the country. Nick’s clients range from technology and manufacturing companies to entertainment, media, marketing, and staffing companies. Nick’s familiarity with intellectual property and commercial litigation lets him give creative, customized, and business-first strategic advice and solutions to clients facing complex disputes.

Nick is a nationally awarded and recognized litigator. For years, he has been repeatedly selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America, as a Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Star, and as a Top Lawyer by Boston Magazine. His insights on intellectual property and commercial litigation issues are regularly published in global legal publications, including Law360 and Bloomberg Law. He is also a frequent lecturer on intellectual property and commercial litigation issues, including for the National Business Institute, which has recognized Nick with an Outstanding Faculty Award. While at Georgetown Law, Nicholas was an Annual Review Articles Editor for the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law and a nationally award-winning Barrister’s Council’s Moot Court team member.

Nick also maintains an active pro-bono practice, lending his experience and expertise to Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, through which he counsels and educates creative entrepreneurs on intellectual property and commercial matters and issues. As a musician himself, Nick finds deep fulfillment in serving the creative community.

Representative Matters

• Obtained complete dismissal of a complaint against a national staffing company in a case involving claims of breach of noncompete, nonsolicitation, and nondisclosure, and misappropriation of trade secrets from a competitor.
• Attained favorable results for an industry-leading national materials manufacturer, securing a court order upholding the manufacturer’s claims of misappropriation of trade secrets and unfair competition against its largest regional competitor.
• Obtained injunctive and protective relief for a global media and entertainment company, successfully preventing its competitors from disseminating and using its confidential and proprietary business information and trade secrets.
• Defeated a motion for preliminary injunction seeking to bar a national staffing company from hiring an employee subject to a noncompete agreement and to prevent the disclosure of trade secrets and confidential information after two days of evidentiary hearings.
• Procured successful results for a regional manufacturer, helping it to retrieve and protect its copyrights and trademarks against a national web design and digital marketing company through litigation involving claims of copyright and trademark infringement.
• Obtained the dismissal of a complaint filed against a national live entertainment production company, successfully enforcing a dissolution agreement governing the post-business-divorce distribution and use of intellectual property and trade secrets.
• Procured injunctive relief for a well-established regional products distributor, successfully enforcing noncompete and nondisclosure agreements and enjoining several former manager-level employees from unfairly joining its competitor.