Trade Secret Legal Protection 2025 - Agenda

The Honorable Kent Jordan

Kent A. Jordan is a Director in the Wilmington, Delaware law firm of Richards, Layton & Finger. Previously, since 2006, he served as a United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit. Before that, he was a United States District Judge for the District of Delaware from 2002 to 2006. Judge Jordan received a B.A. in Economics in 1981 from Brigham Young University and a J.D. in 1984 from Georgetown University. He was an Assistant United States Attorney and head of the Civil Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware. Later, he served as an officer and as a member of the boards of directors of privately held businesses and was a partner in a law firm. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University and has served as President of the Board of Trustees of the American Inns of Court Foundation, as well as on the boards of other non-profit organizations.

Honorable Judge William G Young

The Honorable Faith Hochberg is a nationally recognized Federal Judge and former United States Attorney known for her broad expertise spanning judicial, federal law enforcement, and financial institution regulatory top level positions. In 2015, Judge Hochberg retired from the bench to found Hochberg ADR, LLC, which provides mediation, arbitration, and mock court exercises in high profile, complex matters in national and international litigation.  Judge Hochberg serves as a court-appointed Monitor in international cybersecurity cases, and as a court-appointed Special Master in many cases in both federal and state courts, including complex multi-district litigation (MDL cases).  

Judge Hochberg is a distinguished neutral admitted to the rosters of the AAA, ICDR, ICC, and CPR; she is a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute.  Her expertise broadly spans many areas of law:  class actions, corporate contract, insurance, banking & financial institutions, securities, antitrust, trade secrets, pharmaceutical development and licensing, patent and other intellectual property litigation and licensing, merger and acquisition transactions, and partnership disputes. 

Judge Hochberg was twice nominated by the President, and confirmed by the Senate, first as United States Attorney and then as a United States District Judge. During her tenure on the bench, she has presided over thousands of federal cases, including large class actions, securities, banking, patent and intellectual property, pharmaceutical intellectual property and licensing, antitrust, insurance, ERISA, corporate contract, construction related disputes, employment and partnership disputes, and others. The Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation appointed her to preside over large national multi-district cases, filed across the country and consolidated to be managed by Judge Hochberg. She is a frequent speaker both nationally and internationally on patent law, class actions, employment law, and alternative dispute resolution. 

Judge Hochberg was invited to sit by designation on the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and served as a patent pilot judge with special expertise in this complex area of law.  She was honored as the first Fellow of the Innovation Center for Law and Technology at New York Law School and also serves on the Center’s Advisory Board.  She previously served on the Board of Trustees of the Lasker Foundation, acclaimed for its prominence in promoting outstanding research in science and medicine.

Judge Hochberg was the top federal law enforcement official when she served as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, managing strategy and operations of the large public office.  As Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury Department, she spearheaded multinational tactics to combat money laundering, and was responsible for oversight of the Treasury Department’s enforcement agencies, including the Office of Foreign Assets Control [OFAC], the Bank Secrecy Office, as well as Secret Service, U.S. Customs Service and other agencies. 

Judge Hochberg has developed risk management and civil regulatory enforcement criteria for financial institutions during her service as Senior Deputy Chief Counsel of the OTS during the S & L crisis.

Judge Hochberg received her law degree  from Harvard Law School, where she graduated magna cum laude and was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review.  Judge Hochberg graduated, summa cum laude, from Tufts University, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She also attended the London School of Economics.