Julian (Pete) Mack

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Direct: (415) 227-3570
Email: [email protected]
Offices: San Francisco
Bar Admissions: California

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Julian (Pete) Mack specializes in trade secret, unfair competition, and employee retention and recruitment matters, probate and trust litigation, and business and commercial litigation. His practice includes complex contractual, banking and probate matters, with substantial experience in creditors’ rights, lender liability, bank fraud, and financial elder abuse matters.

Mr. Mack’s practice covers the entire gamut from prejudgment remedies to trials and sophisticated appellate work. He represents a wide variety of trusts, estates, corporate and individual clients in the probate courts and in civil actions in the state courts of California and Arizona, as well as in federal courts across the country. Mr. Mack has spoken extensively on issues involving trade secrets, financial elder abuse, the attorney-client privilege, creditors’ rights and remedies, and bank fraud.

Areas of Practice

Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
Appellate Law
Litigation
Tax, Benefits and Estate Planning

Industry Specialties

Equipment Leasing
Alternative Lenders
Fiduciaries, Receivers & Trustees
Trust and Estate Litigation

Additional Specialties

Alternative Dispute Resolution
Financial Institutions Litigation
Trusts, Estates and Probate Litigation
Real Estate Litigation
Unfair Competition
Trade Secret Disputes
Probate and Trust Litigation

- Publication
  
  Badges of Bad Faith in Trade Secret Litigation
  
  Daily Journal · October 25th, 2023
- By Dylan W. Wiseman and Julian (“Pete”) Mack October 25, 2023 “In light of California’s recent legislation underscoring its [...]
- Publication
  
  Template Civil Jury Instructions Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act
  
  Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal · July 6th, 2021
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- By: Dylan Wiseman, Jeffrey Judd, and Julian (Pete) Mack “Since its May 11, 2016, enactment, the Defend Trade Secrets Act has been alleged in several [...]
- Publication
  
  California Employers Should Modify the Definition of 'Confidential Information' to Avoid Operating as a Covenant Not to Compete
  
  The Recorder · December 4th, 2020
- By Dylan Wiseman and Julian (Pete) Mack December 3, 2020 As 2021 approaches, California businesses should update their confidentiality agreements to comply [...]
- Publication
  
  California Supreme Court Clarifies Bounds of Legitimate Competition Under Tort and Antitrust Law
  
  National Law Review · September 11th, 2020
- September 11, 2020 On August 3, 2020, the California Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated decision in Ixchel Pharma, LLC v. Biogen, Inc., clarifying [...]
- Publication
  
  California Supreme Court to Rule on Non-Competes Between Businesses and Interference Claims
  
  The Recorder · May 15th, 2020
- In the recent case of ‘Ixchel Pharma v. Biogen’, the Ninth Circuit asked the California Supreme Court to resolve two questions “because of their [...]

Areas of Practice

Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
Appellate Law
Litigation
Tax, Benefits and Estate Planning

Industry Specialties

Equipment Leasing
Alternative Lenders
Fiduciaries, Receivers & Trustees
Trust and Estate Litigation

Additional Specialties

Alternative Dispute Resolution
Financial Institutions Litigation
Trusts, Estates and Probate Litigation
Real Estate Litigation
Unfair Competition
Trade Secret Disputes
Probate and Trust Litigation

- Podcast
  
  Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility Podcast: CACI 4420 and the “Readily Ascertainable” Defense
  
  March 1st, 2023 Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
- Join our host Dylan Wiseman along with our attorneys Pete Mack and Jacqueline Vu as they discuss a series of recent cases in the federal courts involving California jury instructions 4420 readily ascertainable defense. [...]
- Podcast
  
  Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility Podcast: THERANOS CASE: U.S. v. Holmes – Trade Secret Defense
  
  March 24th, 2022 Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
- Join our host Dylan Wiseman and guest Professor Ellen Kreitzberg, Legal Commentator for the ABC News Podcast “The Dropout” discuss how the Theranos Case legal team used trade secret defense to justify their [...]
- Podcast
  
  Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility Podcast: Siry Investment, L.P. v. Farkondehpour
  
  October 19th, 2022 Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
- Join our host Dylan Wiseman and guests Joshua Robbins and Pete Mack as they discuss and analyze the recent California Supreme Court case Siry Investment, L.P. v. Farkondehpour, which creates a powerful new weapon in business [...]
- Podcast
  
  Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility Podcast Episode 4
  
  July 10th, 2019 Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
- Listen to episode four as Dylan Wiseman, Pete Mack, and Alexandra Grayner discuss confidentiality agreements under California law.
- Podcast
  
  Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility Podcast Episode 3
  
  June 14th, 2019 Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
- Listen to episode three as Dylan Wiseman, Pete Mack, and Alexandra Grayner discuss confidentiality agreements under California law.

Areas of Practice

Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
Appellate Law
Litigation
Tax, Benefits and Estate Planning

Industry Specialties

Equipment Leasing
Alternative Lenders
Fiduciaries, Receivers & Trustees
Trust and Estate Litigation

Additional Specialties

Alternative Dispute Resolution
Financial Institutions Litigation
Trusts, Estates and Probate Litigation
Real Estate Litigation
Unfair Competition
Trade Secret Disputes
Probate and Trust Litigation

Represented charitable foundation in petition to probate a twenty year old will of which no original exists. Following five day trial, court ruled that the will is valid and may be admitted to probate, and that parties objecting to the will receive no assets from estate.
Represented plaintiff title and escrow company in action against competitor formed by client’s former officers and employees for trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition, and breach of fiduciary duty. Obtained $3.1 million dollar verdict after jury trial, temporary restraining order, and preliminary injunction prohibiting defendants from using customer lists and other stolen information.
Represented a financial institution in trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition and employee raiding case. Obtained $47 million settlement in favor of client, and permanent injunction prohibiting defendants from doing business with any person or entity solicited by use of client’s confidential information.
Represented plaintiff financial institution against competitor and former employees in trade secret and employee raiding case and obtained multi-million dollar settlement in favor of client.
Represented plaintiff employer against former employees in trade secret case and obtained settlement requiring the return of client’s confidential information, forbidding its use by defendants, and substantial monetary compensation.
Obtained California Supreme Court review leading to reversal of rulings in complex trade secret action.
Successfully defended financial institution against claims by 60 investors seeking in excess of $22 million in multiple federal and states court actions arising from a failed Ponzi scheme. Obtained defense verdicts and affirmance of verdicts for the Bank in the California State Court of Appeal and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Obtained dismissal of federal court action against consortium of lenders alleging breach $40 million credit agreement.
Represented independent corporate trustee of $16.5 million testamentary trust in probate proceedings involving beneficiary disputes, petition to impose constructive trust on trust assets, disputes regarding probate of Mexican will.
Represented trustee of $62.5 million trust in multiple probate and civil actions including trust’s action against beneficiaries for breach of fiduciary duty, petitions to compel sale of trust property and distribution of trust, Securities and Exchange Commission petition to require payment of beneficiary’s share of trust to SEC as restitution for Ponzi scheme.
Obtained dismissal of financial elder abuse claims against financial institution by relatives of alleged fraud victim.
Obtained reversal of judgment for plaintiffs in multi-million dollar real estate dispute in Arizona Court of Appeals.
Obtained dismissal of $15.5 million federal court action in complex real property dispute.

Areas of Practice

Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
Appellate Law
Litigation
Tax, Benefits and Estate Planning

Industry Specialties

Equipment Leasing
Alternative Lenders
Fiduciaries, Receivers & Trustees
Trust and Estate Litigation

Additional Specialties

Alternative Dispute Resolution
Financial Institutions Litigation
Trusts, Estates and Probate Litigation
Real Estate Litigation
Unfair Competition
Trade Secret Disputes
Probate and Trust Litigation

Mr. Mack earned his B.A. with highest honors at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his J.D. at Harvard Law School.

Areas of Practice

Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
Appellate Law
Litigation
Tax, Benefits and Estate Planning

Industry Specialties

Equipment Leasing
Alternative Lenders
Fiduciaries, Receivers & Trustees
Trust and Estate Litigation

Additional Specialties

Alternative Dispute Resolution
Financial Institutions Litigation
Trusts, Estates and Probate Litigation
Real Estate Litigation
Unfair Competition
Trade Secret Disputes
Probate and Trust Litigation

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Arizona Court of Appeals
California State Courts

Areas of Practice

Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
Appellate Law
Litigation
Tax, Benefits and Estate Planning

Industry Specialties

Equipment Leasing
Alternative Lenders
Fiduciaries, Receivers & Trustees
Trust and Estate Litigation

Additional Specialties

Alternative Dispute Resolution
Financial Institutions Litigation
Trusts, Estates and Probate Litigation
Real Estate Litigation
Unfair Competition
Trade Secret Disputes
Probate and Trust Litigation