New DTSA jury instructions aim to bring order to growing trade secret docket
By Steve Scherer ( May 27, 2026, 17:51 GMT | Comment) -- The Sedona Conference’s new DTSA model jury instructions grew out of the frustration trade secret litigators faced when they had to negotiate complex jury instructions from the ground up in federal cases.Nicole Galli remembers exactly when she and other members of The Sedona Conference vowed to draft model jury instructions for the Defend Trade Secrets Act. It was 2022, and litigators faced a wave of post-pandemic trade secret trials where they had to negotiate each set of jury instructions from scratch....
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