Megan Mathias discusses important legal issues and insights for in-house counsel regarding a business confidential information and trade secrets. Topics include: definition of confidential information and trade secrets identification of your competitive edge leading to identification of your confidential information treatment of information as confidential so a court will treat it as confidential documents in place add to the case for protection of information security protocols to limit possible exposure of information limits on access to certain employees enforcement issues in litigation laws protecting trade secrets across the country restrictive covenants, how to use them and when they are enforceable