Russell Beck > Beck Reed Riden LLP > Boston, United States > Lawyer Profile

Beck Reed Riden LLP
155 FEDERAL STREET
SUITE 1302
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02110
MASSACHUSETTS
United States

Position

Partner

Career

Russell Beck is a business, trade secrets, and employee mobility litigator, nationally recognized for his trade secrets and noncompete experience. He was invited to the Obama White House to develop guidelines for the proper use of noncompetes, and has been cited as an expert on trade secrets and noncompetes by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the White House, the Treasury Department, National Public Radio, the BBC World News Service, PBS Newshour, Le Monde, and many others.

Named a “Lawyer of the Year” in 2022 and 2023 by Best Lawyers and in 2019 by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, and included in the Top 10 Lawyers in Massachusetts by Super Lawyers® since 2020, Russell has over 30 years of experience as a complex business, trade secrets, and noncompete litigator, representing clients throughout the country.

Called “one of the foremost trade secret litigators in the country,” Russell is a recognized authority on the law of trade secrets, noncompetes, and employee mobility. In addition to revising language for the Massachusetts Uniform Trade Secrets Act, he wrote the law, wrote the book, and teaches the course on noncompetes in Massachusetts. His books include, Trade Secrets Law for the Massachusetts Practitioner (1st ed. MCLE 2019) and Negotiating, Drafting, and Enforcing Noncompetition Agreements and Related Restrictive Covenants (6th ed., MCLE, Inc. 2021), and the course he created and teaches is Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenants at Boston University School of Law.

Russell also writes and administers the award-winning Fair Competition Law blog and publishes and lectures frequently. He also prepared his firm’s widely used 50 State Noncompete Survey (the first of its kind and updated regularly since 2010) and the firm’s 50 State Trade Secrets Comparison Chart (also the first of its kind).

Russell is the immediate past-President of the Boston Bar Foundation. And, prior to founding the firm, Russell was a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP, where he was founder and chair of the Trade Secret/Noncompete Practice. Before that, he was a partner at Epstein Becker & Green, PC, and an associate at Reynolds Rappaport & Kaplan and at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)

(Hall of Fame)

Russell BeckBeck Reed Riden LLP

The Boston-based boutique Beck Reed Riden LLP is praised for its ‘excellent advisors and litigators’, with capabilities across the gamut of trade secret and non-compete cases, working with many longstanding clients on day-to-day trade secret issues in employment contexts. Practice head Russell Beck is considered ‘one of the nation’s foremost experts on trade secret law’. Further notable members of the group include ‘dedicated litigator’ Stephen Riden, who regularly represents corporate and individual clients in related commercial disputes at the State and Federal court levels. Nicole Corvini Daly is equipped to assist clients with issues ranging from business and trade secret-related disputes, to those involving restrictive covenants and employee mobility. Sarah Tishler is also a key name to note.

United States > Boston Elite > Commercial litigation

(Commercial litigation )

Russell Beck – Beck Reed Riden LLP

Russell Beck, founding partner of Beck Reed Riden LLP, is a seasoned commercial litigator with great experience leading his firm. Drawing on his experience at a range of market-leading firms, he demonstrates market-leading expertise in trade secrets, covenants, and real estate litigation. Beck serves diverse industries—including B2B sales, technology, life sciences, pharma, and financial services—with exceptional expertise and strategic insight.