Chris J. Trebatoski

As President of my company I gave a previously successful white collar professional who'd made a couple wrong turns in business and was in financial straits "a chance". We taught the person our highly refined business model and methodology and differentiators, and worked with them for almost two ye...ars, which included obtaining outside help as they were attempting to fit in. This person artfully concealed for a substantive period of the time while working for us that they were both utilizing our work product for their own ends and were lying about the actual amount of work done for us. When I terminated the person they took work product to which they had no right to a competitor who had no clue about our business model and methodology much less how to implement it. AND the person spent serious effort in attempting to hack into our company systems for access to more of our work product. Chris masterfully listened to us, took us through guided key questions, researched the issues and quickly determined the seriousness of the acts which were in fact felonious. He next reviewed, compared and contrasted the legal and pragmatic options, and potential pitfalls of perception and reputation in the marketplace when attempting to address provisionally wrongful terminated employee actions. Then he recommended a simple course of action which he believed likely to be most effective and asked us to consider it vs. the other options we discussed. We accepted his recommendation. He executed it. Our competitor divested of our terminated employee and the person appears to have left our industry. While it is difficult to ascertain quantitatively the level of harm we've sustained, it is a relief that it does not appear that the damage is actively on-going. We thus accomplished practically about the best we could expect. BTW Chris accomplished this at 80% of the budget he estimated it would cost. Finally, the most important accolade we can give Chris is his professional wisdom and legal artistry in explaining the nuances of the courses of action and how each might reverberate and possibly reflect badly back on us notwithstanding our having been clearly wronged. This is evidence of both deep experience and legal skill.