Two years ago, Homayoun Ghassemi resigned as director of hockey marketing at sporting goods company Easton Sports. He accepted a job at Warrior Lacrosse, owned by the Boston-based sneaker company New Balance. Easton v. Easton remains unresolved, but already it has become a textbook case for CSOs to learn how to handle employees coming from and going to competitors. The case can be made that Warrior should have done more to detect and preserve the data relevant.”]

