Litigation services company Barnes & Roberts has sued former employee Jonathan Andron and wants to bar him from working for or consulting with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld on anything competitive with the services offered by B&R, whose target market is patent litigation.

According to an Oct. 2 stipulation of facts jointly filed by B&R and Andron, Andron has accepted an offer of employment from Akin Gump to become the fourth member of its in-house trial presentation department.