E&C is regularly called upon to represent businesses that suspect a departing employee of planning to compete unfairly against them. This was one such case. E&C supervised an expedited and extensive investigation by private investigators and computer forensics experts. The investigation disclosed that the defendant, while still a partner of the firm’s client, had been improperly planning to form a competing business. Presenting this evidence to the court, E&C obtained injunctive relief against the former partner, thus seriously limiting his ability to compete. Subsequently, E&C secured the disqualification of the defendant’s attorneys by demonstrating that defense counsel (a long-time customer of E&C’s client) had helped form and finance the competing business in question.