Greenberg Traurig LLP

Litigation

Managing Shareholder

Kurt A. Kappes is Managing Shareholder of the Sacramento Office. He is also the National Co-Chair of the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice’s Complex Employment Litigation & Trials group. He has extensive lead trial experience in many complex litigation cases, including: class actions, commercial claims, trade secrets and employee mobility, computer fraud, non-competes, unfair competition, and Business and Professions Code Section 17200 actions. Kurt has also represented clients in labor and employment matters, including advisory matters, trade secret audits, contracts, discrimination claims, whistleblower cases, and wrongful termination litigation.

ConcentrationsTrade secrets/unfair competition/employee mobility Commercial litigationLabor and employmentBusiness tortsContract disputes

CapabilitiesLitigation Labor & Employment Class Action LitigationAppellate Trial Practice Trade Secrets

Admission to PracticeCaliforniaSupreme Court of the United StatesU.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitU.S. District Court for the Central District of CaliforniaU.S. District Court for the Eastern District of CaliforniaU.S. District Court for the Northern District of CaliforniaU.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

English

J.D., Northwestern University, Pritzker School of Law, 1986 B.A., summa cum laude, Butler University, 1983