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alexandrabuga replied to the topic Consultants NDAs and CDAs in the forum Consultants and Legal Basics 7 years, 6 months ago
When I first started at Sloan Kettering, I worked in the contracts unit which handled agreements including NDAs. Usually contracts units use in-house counsel to develop templates. Honestly most NDAs include are very similar 1-2 page documents with standard sections/terms. I don’t think its really a consultants role to execute NDAs or provide NDA templates that should have been established or at least reviewed by your company’s in-house legal or sent outside for an attorney to review. If there was no mention of the company and stripped from being identified, I’m not sure that its really a violation of the NDA to use the template language (It depends on if the NDA specified that the agreement/language itself was confidential). Again most NDAs include similar template language and that should always be provided or reviewed by a company’s legal team and or outside attorney. Its not in good taste for him to take another companies’ template language, but again its seems like legal documents would have been out of the scope of a consultant for design controls and should have been established by your company’s legal team/attorney.