Dylan Wiseman

United States

Buchalter Law Firm · For 28 years, Mr. Wiseman has practiced exclusively in the fields of trade secrets, unfair competition, and employee mobility. Mr. Wiseman is the Co-Chair of Buchalter’s Trade Secret and Employee Mobility Practice Group. Since 2021, Dylan has been recognized by the Daily Journal, California’s legal industry newspaper, as among the Top Trade Secrets Lawyers in California. He is nationally recognized by London-based IAM (Intellectual Asset Management) for trade secret litigation. In 2023, IAM tapped Mr. Wiseman as its exclusive commentator on trade secrets law for the United States. In 2024, Mr. Wiseman spoke via Zoom at the United States Patent & Trademark Office’s trade secrets conference in Bangkok, Thailand for the Association of South East Asian Nations. In 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office tapped Mr. Wiseman to present on the status of U.S. trade secrets at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation’s trade secret workshop in Incheon, South Korea. Mr. Wiseman represents businesses, on both the plaintiff and defense side in disputes involving: Trade secrets Unfair competition Employee mobility and en masse departures Antitrust claims Disputes involving customer non-solicitation restrictions He also counsels employers and start-ups regarding best practices for intellectual property. Mr. Wiseman’s diverse group of clients include: Insurance brokerages Venture capital, private equity, and investment banking firms Aerospace companies Artificial intelligence and machine learning companies Mortgage banking firms Biomedical device companies Inventors Professional service firms Life sciences companies Renewable and sustainable energy companies Casinos Healthcare companies Sporting goods companies Media outlets Commercial banks Mr. Wiseman has extensive jury trial experience. He has been lead trial counsel in several complex designated unfair competition jury trials, including an eight-week jury trial. Mr. Wiseman also has substantial first-chair experience in complex arbitrations. Because of his trial experience, the California Lawyers Association asked Mr. Wiseman to be the sole author of the chapter on jury instructions in the treatise Trade Secret Litigation & Protection: A Practice Guide to the DTSA and CUTSA (4th Ed. 2021). Mr. Wiseman’s chapter provides a comprehensive critique of the CACI 4400 series jury instructions used for trade secret claims. Similarly recognizing Mr. Wiseman’s two decades of trade secrets trial verdicts, he is a co-author of the Template Civil Jury Instructions Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act, which was published in 2021 in the Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal. In 2023, Mr. Wiseman joined The Sedona Conference – Working Group 12 (Trade Secrets), which is developing a set of pattern jury instructions for the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act. Appearing in state and federal courts, Mr. Wiseman has extensive experience litigating disputes under: The Uniform Trade Secrets Act The Defend Trade Secrets Act The Sherman Antitrust Act The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act California’s Unfair Competition Law, Business and Professions Code, section 17200 California’s Business & Professions Code sections 16600 and 16601 California’s intellectual property assignment provisions California Penal Code section 502 California’s employee duty loyalty provisions On multiple occasions, Mr. Wiseman has taught continuing education seminars regarding trade secrets and unfair competition litigation for the State Bar of California’s Labor and Employment Law Section. An award-winning lecturer, he has also taught continuing legal education seminars regarding intellectual property protection, social media and confidentiality, computer forensics, and eDiscovery. In 2017, Mr. Wiseman opened the Sacramento office after working for a year to plan, organize, and recruit the other Sacramento attorneys. The Sacramento office now has over 40 resident lawyers. Prior to joining Buchalter, Mr. Wiseman was a Shareholder for ten years at Littler Mendelson, the world’s largest labor and employment law firm.

United States