Meet Maria
Maria Kreiter is a shareholder on the Litigation team in Godfrey & Kahn’s Milwaukee office and chair of the firm’s Non-Compete & Trade Secrets practice.
Maria focuses on claims involving misappropriation of trade secrets; breach of non-solicitation, non-competition and confidentiality agreements; information theft; employee raiding; and other issues arising from key employee departures and recruitment. She regularly counsels employers seeking to minimize recruiting risk and protect their competitive intelligence. Maria has extensive experience advising clients as to the enforceability of restrictive covenants and a track record of successfully litigating non-compete claims on behalf of both employers and senior-level employees, including emergency injunction matters.
Maria has substantial financial services litigation experience, including a wide array of banking and lender liability claims, including class actions, commercial borrower disputes, fraud, theft and other claims involving intentional wrongdoing; FINRA arbitrations; mortgage lending disputes; and accounting malpractice claims. She also advises financial services clients on compliance, risk mitigation and business practices designed to reduce litigation exposure.
Maria’s trial experience includes court and jury trials in state and federal courts nationwide, as well as numerous injunction hearings and emergency temporary restraining order hearings.
Maria is licensed in both Wisconsin and Illinois.
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