Nearly 100% of Mr. Graves practice is in trade secret litigation and trade secret counseling for new start-ups. He works frequently with small, venture-backed companies, as well as larger businesses like Google. As one of the few attorneys in Silicon Valley working in this niche full time, Mr. Graves brings a unique perspective of how trade secret and non-competition rules affect the growth of venture-backed innovation communities. Mr. Graves is currently writing a series of critiques of trade secret law which can be found in publications such as the UCLA Journal of Law & Technology and the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology.