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The 2011 Supplement includes three new chapters, on litigation strategy, discovery, and pleadings. In addition, it provides updates on risks of social media as regards trade secrets or the confidential status of lists of customers, vendors, or suppliers; staffing and consulting industries perspectives on restrictive covenants; the Department of Justice settlement over claims that mutual no call agreements to prevent employee solicitation could be per se antitrust violations; the ongoing struggle in California courts over the existence of a trade secret exception to the general rule against noncompete contracts; the use of contract language to help support a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claim to address unauthorized downloading; and significant changes to the law in Georgia, Texas, and Wisconsin.