Criminal Law

• Theft
• Restraining Order
  In a case involving the enforcement of noncompete and trade secrets clauses of an employment agreement, won a temporary restraining order against the new employer of a client’s former employee, prohibiting the new employer from employing the individual in any position relating to the employee’s prior job duties, and barring misappropriation of the client’s confidential information.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Stephen has extensive experience litigating business disputes involving breach of contract, fraud, unfair competition, trade secrets, and noncompete agreements. He has represented companies in a variety of governmental investigations. Stephen also has substantial experience representing owners involved in intra-corporate disputes, including shareholder litigation and close-corporation control matters.
• Business Disputes
  Sarah Tishler is a commercial litigator whose practice focuses on complex business disputes in state and federal courts, including intellectual property, breach of contract, and fraud claims. Her experience also includes regulatory investigations, international arbitration, securities litigation, shareholder litigation, class-action litigation, and pre-transactional advising.
• Trade Secrets
  Boutique firm Beck Reed Riden LLP boasts a breadth of expertise in trade secrets and restrictive covenants, with particular specialisms in trade secret protection, business litigation and employment matters. The firm is also known for counseling on company-wide trade secrets protection and employee movements. The team has helped to shape federal and state legislation in the area, advising federal legislators, state legislators and administrations at the federal and state levels. Russell Beck leads the practice from the firm’s Boston office and provides contentious and non-contentious trade secrets advice across the US.
• Intellectual Property
  Russell Beck will be a speaker at this year’s American Intellectual Property Law Association Spring Meeting. The AIPLA’s Spring Meeting will take place on May 10-12, 2023, in Seattle.
• Unfair Competition
  Trade secret, noncompete, and unfair competition cases require quick and decisive action. Beck Reed Riden LLP handles these cases every day and is ready to protect its clients on a moment’s notice. We serve our clients not only in Massachusetts, but as national noncompete and trade secrets litigation counsel.
• Antitrust

Employment Law

• Wrongful Termination
  We litigate discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wrongful termination, wage and hour, breach of contract, and related claims. Our attorneys have successfully litigated cases in state and federal courts, before arbitrators, and before administrative agencies across the country.
• Employment Discrimination
  Ensuring compliance with the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Older Workers Benefit Protection Act, and other applicable state and federal laws, including by preparing necessary disclosure materials.
• Employment Contract
  Beck Reed Riden LLP represents employers of all sizes – from small family-owned businesses and non-profit organizations to Fortune 500 companies – in a wide array of employment matters. We also represent executives and professionals with respect to employment contracts and termination, severance, and restrictive covenant matters.
• Employment Litigation
  Our employment law practice focuses on being proactive and addressing difficult situations before they turn into serious and expensive problems. At Beck Reed Riden LLP, our employment attorneys rely on their decades of experience to anticipate potential problems and provide responsive, knowledgeable, and creative guidance on even the thorniest of employment issues.
• Non-compete Agreement
  In 2016, the Obama White House invited Russell Beck to join a working group there on noncompete agreements. Following that conversation in Washington, D.C., Russell was asked by a United States Senator to join a small advisory discussion concerning potential federal noncompete legislation.
• Severance Agreement
  Layoffs and other terminations not “for cause”: With respect to layoffs and other terminations not “for cause,” employers may elect to include noncompetes in their severance agreements (in which case they will likely have to negotiate a severance payment). In this case, the employer may avoid application of the noncompete law by providing the employee with seven (7) days to rescind acceptance of the noncompete (in which case, common law will apply).
• Sexual Harassment
  Steve has lectured and written on employment law subjects for continuing legal education and various business organizations. He is a frequent panelist on employment law issues at Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education. He was a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association subcommittee responsible for drafting the MCAD Sexual Harassment Guidelines.

Property Law

• Land Use and Zoning

Health Law

• Disability Discrimination

Finance Law

• Tax Law