Free Non Disclosure Form (NDA Form)Written by Jefferson Highway, General Counsel
Non Disclosure Agreements (NDAs, also known as 'Confidentiality Agreements') are an essential part of modern business. If you have a trade secret, an invention or a 'good idea', it can be worrying revealing details to a third party because you never know if your idea may be stolen. For this reason, NDA forms are common. The problem is, most of them are long winded, running to 10 pages or more, and they very length of them makes it difficult sometimes to get your target to sign in first place.For this reason, we here at www.lawyersbench.com have come up with this 'short form' NDA form you can use. It is short, unambiguous, and covers both parties, so you should find much less resistance when trying to get it signed. As always, www.lawyersbench.com recommend consulting your own lawyer in any legal matter. ----------------------- Non Disclosure Agreement ----------------------- Parties:- A) COMPANY (or person) A (E.g. www.lawersbench.com) B) COMPANY (or person) B (E.g. Jefferson Highway Esq) Whereas:- The parties possess valuable information, technical knowledge, experience and data of a secret and confidential nature relating to field, all of which are regarded by them as commercial assets of considerable value; and The parties are willing to disclose such information to each other on condition that recipient of information does not disclose same to any third party nor make use thereof in any manner except as set out below. In consideration of such disclosure to each other, it is agreed by and between parties hereto as follows; 1.The receiving party undertakes to treat as strictly confidential and not to divulge to any third party any of information disclosed by other and not to make use of any such information without disclosing party's prior written consent. 2.In event of one party visiting any of Establishments of other party, visiting party undertakes that any information relating to field which may come to its knowledge as a result of any such visit, inclusive of form, materials and design of various elements of any relevant plant and equipment which may be seen at such Establishments as well as all plant as a whole, methods of operation thereof and various applications thereof, shall be kept strictly confidential and that any such information will not be divulged to any third party and will not be made use of in any way by visiting party without other party's prior written consent.
| | Class-action lawsuits – Can they help you?Written by Charles Essmeier
The recent withdrawals of prescription medications Vioxx and Bextra from marketplace due to safety concerns has class-action lawsuits in news again. What is a class-action lawsuit? If you have been wronged, can a class-action lawsuit help you?
A class-action lawsuit is one in which a single law firm or attorney represents a group of individuals who have been wronged in some common way. The wrong may have come in form of physical harm from a commercial product or perhaps in form of financial harm done by a company misleading public in some way. In early 1990’s, class-action lawsuits were filed on behalf of women allegedly harmed by silicone breast implants, and now attorneys are filing class-action suits on behalf of people allegedly harmed through use of Vioxx and Bextra.
There are advantages and disadvantages to class-action suits. The primary advantage is that they allow a group of people, perhaps numbering in thousands, an opportunity to have their case heard in court without each of them having to file a separate lawsuit. If thousands, or even tens of thousands, of people filed individual lawsuits against same company for same reason, courts, both at Federal and state levels, could become hopelessly clogged with nearly identical cases. Another advantage is that it allows people who may not have individually suffered enough harm to justify a lawsuit by themselves to seek compensation
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