What would you do about former employee took trade secrets?

Has anyone dealt with something like this? I'm not sure what my options are.

former employee took trade secrets. I've been dealing with this for about 8 weeks now and teh situation isn't improving.

This involves software/code I developed over the past 36 months. I do not have documentation proving my ownership and timeline ngl.

What are the risks if I pursue this? What's the likely timeline?

Just want to point out — the statute of limitations might be a factor here. In some states it's as short as 1-2 years. Don't sit on this too long.

I went through almost the exact same thing.

What worked for me was hiring an attorney to send the initial letter. It took 2-4 months but was worth it.