Once upon a time, the primary value of most companies lay in their physical materials–their inventory, their physical plant, etc. Increasingly, however, the value of a company lies in its intellectual property. Some of this intellectual property, such as trade secrets, needs to be protected by nondisclosure agreements (NDAs). You are going to need a non-disclosure agreement lawyer to draft these agreements appropriately.
Schedule ConsultationA Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) is a legally enforceable contract between a disclosing party and a receiving party, designed to protect confidential information, trade secrets, and proprietary data. These agreements are commonly used in businesses to safeguard sensitive corporate information, maintain patent rights, and distinguish between what can be disclosed and what must be kept confidential. When individuals sign an NDA, they commit to keeping the shared information confidential. If they breach the agreement and disclose the protected information, the disclosing party can take legal action, seeking damages. Having an NDA provides competitive advantages for a business owner, and consulting with a non-disclosure agreements lawyer in Denver ensures enforceability under both Colorado and federal law.
Businesses use non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) primarily to protect trade secrets that do not enjoy the protection of patent, copyright, or trademark law. A trade secret can be anything from the formula for the KFC secret recipe to lists of key customers. Colorado law places certain restrictions on ‌NDAs.
NDAs restrict the use of confidential information by employees both during and after their employment. To enjoy legal recourse to the courts for misappropriation of your company’s trade secrets, your company must demonstrate an effort to preserve its confidentiality. A well-drafted NDA accomplishes this purpose.
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Our law firm employees have extensive experience in planning, drafting, reviewing, and revising non-disclosure agreements, as well as other types of confidentiality agreements. We are well-versed in drafting the following types of confidentiality agreements, among others:
The protected information might include:
Confidentiality agreements can protect many other forms of information as well.
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Our clients have included private companies, public companies, non-profits, institutional investors, and entrepreneurs. We provide ongoing legal support, as well as help with single transactions such as mergers and acquisitions.
At Sequoia Legal, we take an active and continuing interest in your organization’s long-term success. Our non-disclosure agreement attorneys can leverage our decades of combined experience to help you avoid common pitfalls and take a long-term perspective on moves that your company is making right now.
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Yes, under almost any circumstances, you can talk to your lawyer about your NDA. Typically it is not the existence of the NDA itself that is secret, but the information that the NDA describes. Even if your lawyer does look at the NDA, it would be illegal for them to disclose this information due to a legal principle known as attorney-client privilege.
Yes, under most circumstances, you can. An NDA, for example, cannot prevent you from reporting illegal company activity and exercising your right to sue (for racial discrimination, for example). If it did purport to prevent you from suing over illegal company activity, the NDA itself would be void as a matter of public policy.Â
Of course, you can certainly sue under an NDA if someone who is bound by the NDA discloses information about legal company activity for which the NDA forbids disclosure.
You should definitely hire an attorney to draft your NDA agreement for you, and attorneys aren’t cheap. An attorney might charge you $175 an hour or more, and it might take several billable hours to draft the agreement. Contrast that expense, however, with the expense of losing critical company information due to a poorly-drafted NDA.
Yes, definitely. Arguably, a lawyer should draft the entire NDA. At least have an experienced business attorney look over your NDA to make sure it doesn’t contain any errors that could come back to haunt you later.