Phone

Email

cameron.shilling@mclane.com

Office

City Hall Plaza
900 Elm Street
Manchester, NH 03101

Practice/Industry Groups

• Business Litigation
• Employment and Labor Law
• General Civil Litigation
• Intellectual Property Law
• Intellectual Property Litigation

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Cameron G. Shilling
Director

Cameron chairs our Employment Litigation Group. His expertise is in complex business litigation, particularly employment and intellectual property disputes. He is adept at handling trade secrets and non-competition lawsuits, commercial and employment contract cases, employment discrimination and harassment, complex electronic discovery issues, and matters under Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act and Family and Medical Leave Act. Cameron also counsels employers with respect to risk management issues, and he creates and implements electronic data management policies and procedures. He has an active practice in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and litigates cases throughout New England and around the country.

Department

• Litigation

Areas of Practice

• Employment Litigation and Risk Management Counseling
• Non-Competition Agreements and Fiduciary Duties of Employees
• Trade Secrets Litigation and Business Counseling
• Intellectual Property Litigation
• Electronic Data Management and E-Discovery

Representative Work

• Bauer Nike Hockey, Inc. v. Gaetan Champagne (Rockingham Superior Court 2003) (adopting inevitable disclosure doctrine in New Hampshire and imposing injunction to prevent inevitable use of trade secrets)
• Netria Corporation v. First Trade Solutions, Ltd. et al. (Rockingham Superior Court 2006) (imposing injunction for trade secret misappropriation and judicial sanctions against defendant for destruction of electronic evidence)
• Southern New Hampshire Internal Medicine Associates v. Terence Hanlon, M.D., (Rockingham Superior Court 2005) (imposing injunction against defendant for violation of non-competition agreement)

Admissions

New Hampshire State and Federal Courts, Massachusetts State and Federal Courts, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Professional & Association Memberships

• Chair, ABA Sub-Committee on Trade Secrets and Non-Competition Litigation
• Officer, Labor & Employment Law Section of New Hampshire Bar Association
• Executive Board Member, Daniel Webster Inns of Court
• Board Member, Program Committee, and Legislative Chair, Seacoast Human Resource Association (SHRA)

Recognition

• Chambers USA: A Guide to America's Leading Lawyers (Labor and Employment)
• New England Super Lawyers® 2009
• BV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell

Career

• J.D., Cornell Law School, 1995
• B.S., Lewis & Clark College, 1992

Recent Publications

• Electronic Discovery: Litigation Crashes into the Digital Age
  
• Get a Step Ahead of the Next Legal Disaster: Prepare Your Company to Manage Its Electronic Evidence
  
• Restrictive Covenants: A Multi-State Survey Of Judicial Decisions From January 2003 Through January 2004
  
• Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine: A Necessary, Precise Tool For Trade Secret Law
  
• U.S. Supreme Court Expands The Scope Of Federal Employment Law
  
• The Cutting Edge of Trade Secrets - How Far Should The Law Go To Prevent Misappropriation By Memory And Inevitable Disclosure?
  
• Is A Business Liable For Violence In The Workplace?
  
• An E-Mail Explosion - The Internet Bursts Into The Courtroom
  
• Protect Yourself From Internet Copyright Infringement
  
• A Link To A Copyrighted Web Page May Constitute Copyright Infringement
  
• Why Register Your Copyright? Because You Can't Afford Not To
  
• Can You License a Copyright With Just An E-Mail?
  
• If You Sit On Your Patent Rights, You May Lose The Right To Enforce Your Patent
  
• Will Your Web Site Subject You To A Lawsuit In Any State In The Country?
  
• Legal Disaster Coming: How Can Businesses Handle E-mail To Avoid Legal Problems?
  
• Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine-A Necessary and Precise Tool for Trade Secret Law, ABA "Best Of" Periodicals (2005)
• Enforceability of Non-Competition Agreements and Protection of Trade Secrets, New Hampshire Bar Association's 4th Annual Employment Law Update (2005)
• Restrictive Covenants: A Multi-State Survey of Judicial Decisions, ABA Committee on State Labor and Employment Law (2004)
• The Cutting Edge of Trade Secrets-How Far Should the Law Go to Prevent Misappropriation By Memory and Inevitable Disclosure?, Corporate Counsel Magazine (2003)