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Contract Drafting Confidentiality Agreements

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Key Considerations in Review of NDAs as a Buyer

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When a company is in the process of pursuing a transaction involving the acquisition or merger of another company, one of the first negotiable documents encountered will likely be a non-disclosure or confidentiality agreement...more

Strafford

[Webinar] Drafting Asset Purchase Agreements: Reps, Warranties, Covenants, Conditions, Indemnity, and Other Provisions - July...

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This CLE course will guide deal counsel in drafting and negotiating asset purchase agreements. The panel will discuss legal considerations when negotiating representations and warranties, indemnities, covenants, closing...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Concrete Steps Employers Should Consider When Drafting Severance Agreements in the Wake of McLaren Macomb

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As detailed in our prior client alert, the recent decision issued by the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) in McLaren Macomb reverses Trump-era Board rulings that gave employers wide latitude to utilize broad...more

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP

[Webinar] Full Disclosure About Non-Disclosure Agreements - January 31st, 9:00 am - 10:00 am PST

Non-disclosure agreements (NDA) are often perceived as the simplest and easiest of agreements. Many practitioners have their one favorite form and observe a “one size fits all” approach to its use. NDA’s, however, serve to...more

Epstein Becker & Green

[Webinar] Drafting Enforceable Restrictive Covenants and Confidentiality Agreements for Multi-State Employers - April 5th, 12:30...

The landscape for restrictive covenants and confidentiality agreements is changing rapidly across the country. Notice periods, compensation thresholds, and consideration requirements are increasingly common, and the days...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Cracks in the Confidentiality Exception Boilerplate

Exceptions to confidentiality obligations are largely standardized, but in some contracts a copy-and-paste approach could, at best, lead to uncertainty and, at worst, undermine key aims of the transaction. ...more

McAfee & Taft

Ruling offers guidance for companies seeking injunctions to protect trade secrets

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Customers, trade secrets, and proprietary information are the lifeblood of any company. For this reason, companies routinely have employees sign confidentiality agreements and, to the extent they are enforceable,...more

BCLP

Defend Trade Secrets Act Signing Means It May Be Time to Update Form Agreements

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President Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (the “DTSA”) on May 11, 2016. With his signature, your company’s standard employee intellectual property agreements, third party non-disclosure agreements and other...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Take Care in Drafting: Meschino v. Frazier Industrial Co. is a Cautionary Tale for Employers

In Meschino v. Frazier Industrial Co., Civil No. 15-10327-RGS, 2015 WL 7295463 (D. Mass. Nov. 18, 2015), Judge Stearns held that an employment agreement superseded an earlier employment agreement and a separate earlier...more

Baker Donelson

Can You Keep a Secret? The SEC Says to Ask Carefully

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Employers have a lot to be worried about. Employees are given access to trade secrets, customer lists, financial accounts, and other highly sensitive, confidential information. Most employers attempt to deter improper use of...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

When Is Confidential Really Confidential?

A business’ confidential information is its life-blood. It is often the ingredients for a competitive economic advantage. But, if a business does not take steps to protect against use and dissemination of such information,...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

A Reminder About Careful Drafting of Confidentiality Clauses

The recent decision by the High Court of England and Wales (Chancery Division) in Richmond Pharmacology Limited (Company) v. Chester Overseas Limited, et al. underscores the need to carefully draft confidentiality clauses and...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Take 5 Newsletter: An Employer's "Top 5" Action Items for 2014

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It's December, and human resources professionals and law departments are reflecting on the issues addressed in 2013 and giving thanks for incident-free holiday parties. But the big question is this: What issues should get...more

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