10/07/2026
🧹Legal Housekeeping🧹
Business owners, here is your weekly task: Check that non-disclosure agreements are in place where needed.
Your business likely has information worth protecting — client lists, pricing strategies, proprietary processes, financial data, or product ideas. A non-disclosure agreement (NDA) is one of the simplest tools available to protect that information, but it only works if it’s actually in place before the information is shared.
Consider who has access to sensitive business information: employees, contractors, vendors, potential partners, or anyone you’ve brought into conversations about a new product or direction. Of those, who has signed an NDA? For employees, confidentiality provisions may already be included in their agreements — or they may not be. For outside parties, the answer is often “no one.”
NDAs are generally straightforward documents, but they’re only enforceable if they’re reasonable in scope and properly executed.
