Jonathan Pollard LLC

Jonathan Pollard is a trial lawyer and litigator based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  He focuses his practice on competition law.  Jonathan Pollard focuses his practice on defending non-compete and trade secret claims. Jonathan routinely represents doctors, corporate executives and other high level employees who are switching companies, or, who have started their own ventures. Beyond litigation, Jonathan advises employees, companies and business owners regarding restrictive covenant issues in connection with employment contracts, separation agreements, hiring decisions, the purchase or sale of business interests and the execution of commercial leases. Jonathan has been interviewed about non-compete issues by reporters from INC Magazine, the BBC and The Tampa Bay Times. His particular areas of interest include:

► The intersection of medicine and competition
► Non-compete agreements and antitrust
► Strategic use of declaratory judgment actions
► Employee poaching and raiding
► Choice of law and conflicts of law
► Restrictive covenants in commercial leases

Representative matters include:

► Defending a media technology company against claims of misappropriation of trade secrets.

► Defending a prominent geriatrics doctor in non-compete dispute with former practice

► Prosecuting a declaratory judgment action on behalf of a medical gas company and defending the company against non-compete counterclaims.

► Prosecuting negligence claims on behalf of a biofuel company against escrow agent in connection with failed $7 million loan transaction.

► Prosecuting antitrust claims on behalf of First Quality, a consumer products company, against Kimberly Clark.

► Defending a prominent wine & spirits sales executive in non-compete litigation against his former company, Southern Wine and Spirits.

Prior to establishing his own practice, Jonathan spent three years at the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner.

Jonathan earned his B.A. from Cornell University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. While at Cornell, Jonathan served as the President of the Cornell Speech & Debate Team, earning honors as a national finalist and an All-American. During his time at Cornell, Jonathan was named a College Scholar, awarded a research fellowship through the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and selected as an inaugural member of the Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Program. In his senior year, he was tapped by University leaders to represent Cornell in the Rhodes Scholar competition.

Jonathan earned his J.D. from Georgetown University, where he was awarded a full scholarship and served as an associate editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. While working with Georgetown’s asylum clinic, Jonathan and a classmate successfully represented a Cameroonian refugee in an asylum proceeding. Throughout law school, Jonathan served as a contributing writer for a number of legal publications, including The Hedge Fund Law Report and The Native American Report.

Prior to law school, Jonathan taught high school English in southwest Baltimore, Maryland. He is the founder, coach and a major sponsor of the speech & debate program at Boyd Anderson High School, in Lauderdale Lakes. For more information, visit http://www.pollardllc.com.