NDAs in the USA Today: Refresher Course
“Non-disclosure agreements (“NDAs”) can play a key component in encouraging American businesses to hire personnel, entrust them with valuable or confidential information, enter into joint ventures with other companies and resolve disputes in a mutually agreeable way (to name only a few scenarios),” advises E. Phileda Tennant in Vinson & Elkins’ Insights.
“However, NDAs can and have become a point of contention in a world that is – rightly – more focused than ever before on sexual harassment issues and conduct in the workplace.”
She discusses three mandatory items needed to have a firm grounding in basic elements for drafting legal NDAs.
