Practice areas: Employment & Labor, Antitrust Litigation, Business Litigation; view more
Licensed in Florida since: 2010
Education: Georgetown University Law Center
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2022 - 2026 
Selected to Rising Stars: 2016 - 2021 Jonathan Pollard is the principal of Pollard PLLC, a Fort Lauderdale-based litigation boutique focused on employment and competition law. He has extensive experience litigating non-compete, trade secret and employment cases. He has tried both jury and bench trials to verdict and successfully prosecuted appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the Florida District Courts of Appeal. Jonathan has been interviewed about non-compete and trade secret issues by reporters from Bloomberg, FundFire, Inc. Magazine, and more. He has taught continuing legal education courses to other lawyers on topics related to non-compete and trade secret litigation. He has published numerous articles on non-compete litigation, most recently in Litigation Commentary & Review. In addition to litigation, Jonathan routinely advises both companies and individual on related issues including employee poaching and raiding, hiring decisions and the purchase or sale of business interests.
Mr. Pollard is admitted to practice law before the state courts of Florida as well as the United States District Courts for the Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Prior to establishing his own firm, he was an attorney at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP where he represented numerous blue chip companies in complex securities and antitrust cases.
Mr. Pollard is a magna cum laude graduate of Cornell University and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. During his time at Cornell, he served as the President of the Cornell Speech & Debate Team and earned honors as a national finalist and All-American; received a research fellowship through the Andrew Mellon Foundation; was elected to the Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Program and was nominated by the University to represent Cornell in the Rhodes Scholar competition. Mr. Pollard attended law school at Georgetown University on a scholarship and served as an associate editor of the Law Review.
Prior to law school, Jonathan taught high school English in southwest Baltimore, Maryland. To this day, he remains actively involved with public education and education reform. In November 2014, the City of Lauderdale Lakes honored Mr. Pollard by proclaiming November 24th Jonathan Pollard Day in honor of his extensive work with the debate program at Boyd Anderson High School.
Practice areas
Employment & Labor: Employee, Antitrust Litigation, Business LitigationFocus areas
Antitrust & Trade Litigation, Employment Law - Employee, Labor Law, Non-Compete Agreements, Sexual Harassment, Trade Secret, Unions, Wage & Hour Laws, Whistleblower
- 40% Employment & Labor: Employee
- 30% Antitrust Litigation
- 30% Business Litigation
First Admitted: 2010, Florida
Professional Webpage: https://pollardllc.com/jonathan-pollard/
Verdicts / Settlements (Case Results)
- Pollard PLLC Notches Another Appellate Victory
- Jonathan Pollard Speaks to Urban League National Achiever’s Society
- Jonathan Pollard Honored by Southern District of Florida for Pro Bono Work
- Pollard PLLC Defending Tech Company in PA Staffing Non-Compete Dispute
- Pollard Selected as Florida Super Lawyers 2016 Rising Star
- Pollard PLLC Defending Another Construction Non-Compete Dispute
- Pollard Starts Debate Program at Broward County Urban League
- Firm Defeats Non-Compete Injunction in PA Tech Staffing Dispute
- Firm Defeats Non-Compete Injunction in Broward UX Dispute
- Pollard Quoted in FundFire on FINRA Arbitration
- Another Non-Compete Win: Pollard PLLC Defeats Preliminary Injunction in Tech Case Involving Ernst & Young
- Pollard Quoted in Modern Healthcare on Physician Non-Competes
- Pollard PLLC Files $2.7 Million Arbitration Demand for Wrongful Expulsion of LLC Member
- Pollard Quoted in Wall Street Journal on Broker Non-Competes
- Digital Guardian Quotes Pollard on Data Security
- Pollard PLLC Defeats Injunction in Energy Transport Non-Compete Dispute
- Pollard PLLC Defeats Bid to Send $2 Million Financing Dispute to Arbitration
- Pollard PLLC Wins Appellate Stay in Massive Nurse Staffing Non-Compete Fight
- Pollard Speaks on Defend Trade Secrets Act at National Bar Association Conference
- Pollard Defeats Motion to Dismiss Lanham Act False Advertising Claims
- Pollard PLLC Beats Holland & Knight’s Bid for Summary Judgment in Energy Hauling Non-Compete Dispute
- Pollard Honored by Super Lawyers for 2nd Year in a Row
- Pollard PLLC Launches Major Arbitration by Ex-CFO Against Federated National
- Pollard PLLC Defeats FEDNAT Insurance Bid for Non-Compete Injunction
- Pollard PLLC Wins Another Appeal of a Non-Compete Preliminary Injunction
- Pollard PLLC Sponsors Legal Aid Bridge to Justice Breakfast
- Pollard PLLC Defeats Motion to Dismiss $25 Million Trade Secret Case
- Defending a medical gas company against non-compete and breach of fiduciary duty claims in Moon v. Medical Technology Associates, Case No. 13-cv-02782 (MDFL)
- Prosecuting antitrust claims related to patent abuse on behalf of a consumer products company in Kimberly Clark v. First Quality, 09-CV-1685 (MDPA)
- Evans v. Generic Solution Engineering, No. 5D15-578, 2015 WL 6554429, at *3 (Fla. 5th DCA 2015) (vacating preliminary injunction in non-compete case)
- Moon v. Medical Technology Associates, 2015 WL 413347 (M.D. Fla. Jan. 30, 2015) (denying preliminary injunction on remand)
- IDMWorks v. Pophaly, 192 F. Supp. 3d 1335 (S.D. Fla. 2016) (denying injunction in software non-compete dispute) , 2016
- Defending media technology company and its principals against claims of misappropriation of trade secrets in American Registry v. Hanaw, 13-cv-00352 (MDFL)
- Assisting with the prosecution claims under the Anti-Cybersquatting Protection Act in Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences v. Godaddy.com Inc., case No. 2:10-cv-03738, (CD Cal)
- Moon v. Medical Technology Associates, 577 F. App'x 934, 935 (11th Cir. 2014) (vacating preliminary injunction in non-compete case)
- Silva et. al. v. Nightingale Nurses, LLC, Case No. 4D17-0032 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017) (granting stay of injunction and contempt orders pending appeal in dispute between rival nurse staffing agencies) , 2017
- Defending a prominent wine & spirits sales executive in non-compete litigation against his former company in Southern Wine & Spirits v. Simpkins, 10-cv-21136 (SDFL)
- Prosecuting Lanham Act claims for trademark infringement and false advertising against former employee and industry rival in Racing Sports Concepts v. Dickinson, Case No. 13 – 20428 (SDFL)
- American Registry, LLC v. Hanaw et al, 2015 WL 5687693, (M.D. Fla. Sept. 25, 2015) (awarding defendants prevailing party attorney's fees under FDUTPA in trade secret dispute)
- American Registry Hanaw, 2013 WL 6332971 (M.D. Fla. Dec. 5, 2013) (dismissing trade secret and FDUTPA claims under Twombly)
Pro bono / Community Service
- Honored by United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, for pro bono work. , 2016
- Honored by Lauderdale Lakes, Florida with proclaimation for volunteer work with local high school students. , 2015
Educational Background
- J.D., Georgetown University
- B.A., Cornell University
Scholarly Lectures / Writings
- Associate Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal
- Taught high school English in southwest Baltimore, Maryland
- Healthcare
- Medicine
- Software
- Staffing
- Transportation
Office location for Jonathan Pollard
500 E Broward Blvd
#950
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33394
Phone: 888-979-1860
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2022 - 2026
- Rising Stars: 2016 - 2021
