Thank you for the feedback ( I think). I have realized that I made two mistakes here. 1st was being stupid and emailing myself any (regardless of the substance) information. The 2nd mistake was taking the advice of the new agency to activly pursue any accounts. As you can imagine I no longer see eye...

As a quick word of advise. I went down this road myself a few years back. The best thing I can tell you is that most people (like myself) fail in these situations, because they are undercapitalized. Running the agency and getting the business is vital, but make sure that you have prepared finacially...

I am a producer that left a large agency to join another large agency. Former agency is pursuing me for non compete issues, claiming I took confidential info with me in the form of emails I sent myself. I wrote a few accounts (that were not my accounts with the former agency) The new agency advised ...