Professional Expertise:
Victoria Cundiff helps clients identify, protect, and obtain value from their intellectual property both through licensing and through litigation. She is the head of the New York litigation department.

On the transactional side, Ms. Cundiff has helped clients negotiate Web site development and hosting agreements, Internet advertising agreements, on-line contracts, terms and conditions, privacy policies, and dispute resolution procedures, and establish domain name and trademark strategies. She counsels clients on ways to identify and protect their own intellectual property on- and off-line and avoid infringing upon the rights of others.

Ms. Cundiff also has extensive litigation experience, through both alternative dispute resolution and more traditional means, including seeking or opposing immediate injunctive relief. She has successfully tried or resolved significant trade secret, computer law, trademark, unfair competition, and false advertising cases in state and Federal courts and before various arbitration tribunals, including under the InterAmericas Convention and before AAA and the NASD.

Ms. Cundiff's work often focuses on issues arising when key employees leave to work for competitors. She has litigated restrictive covenant, confidentiality agreement, "inevitability," customer solicitation, and breach of fiduciary obligation cases throughout the country to ensure that the loss of key employees does not lead to the loss of competitive advantage. She also advises companies on legal considerations in hiring new employees.

Client Representation:
Her clients range from startup companies owning a single valuable asset to "Fortune 50" manufacturing companies owning a vast array of intellectual property and include clients in the United States and abroad.

Author :
Ms. Cundiff has written widely in the intellectual property field, including:

"The New York Law of Trade Secrets: A Practical Guide,"
"Protecting Computer Software as a Trade Secret,"
"Hiring Competitor's Employees: A Trade Secrets Perspective," and
"How to Own Your Own Intellectual Property."

She is on the editorial board of The Internet Newsletter.

Speaker
She is a frequent lecturer on intellectual property issues before state, national and international legal organizations and is a member of the Practising Law Institute's Intellectual Property Law Advisory Committee.

She has chaired the Practising Law Institute's program, "Trade Secret Protection and Litigation," held in New York and Los Angeles, the American Conference Institute's Program on Licensing Intellectual Property, held in New York and Chicago, and Counsel Connect's on-line seminars on Trade Secrets Law.

Professional Associations:
Ms. Cundiff serves as co-chair of the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Trade Secrets and is Chair of the New York State Bar Association's Intellectual Property Law Section, which has 2000 members.

Education:
Ms. Cundiff received her B.A. degree from the University of Denver and her J.D. degree from Yale Law School.

She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Yale Law School New York Alumni Association and is a founding member of the Print Club of New York.