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Boost Your Skills With Our NDA Course
This two-hour course will provide you with the core expertise and judgment needed to review, draft and negotiate these critical agreements. Whether you’re new to NDAs or just looking to refine your skills, we’re here to help you confidently navigate every aspect of these critical business agreements.
Here's what you'll learn in the 2-hour NDA Essentials course
Module 1
Learn the Fundamentals
Build a strong foundation in NDA language and trade secret concepts so you understand what counts as a trade secret, what reasonable efforts require, and how purpose shapes the scope of protection. (20 minutes)
Module 2
Defining Confidential Information
Develop a clear strategy for defining confidential information, including who discloses and receives it, when it is received, what is covered, and the standard exceptions that keep the definition realistic. (30 minutes)
Module 3
Drafting the NDA's Core Provisions
Learn how to structure the NDA’s core obligations, set the effective date, capture the right signing parties and affiliates, and draft practical non use and non disclosure and conditional approval terms. (20 minutes)
Module 4
Term, Termination, and Other Provisions
Learn how to set a clear NDA term and termination right, why trade secrets need survival for as long as they stay secret, and how to handle return or destroy, IP, warranty, assignment, and injunctive relief provisions. (41 minutes)
Module 5
Managing Operational Risk
Identify and avoid high risk NDA terms such as indemnities, liability limits, liquidated damages, non solicitation, and privacy provisions, and learn how order of precedence keeps your NDA aligned with the main agreement. (20 minutes)
Here's a detailed agenda on everything included in this 2-hour course
01 NDA Fundamentals
1.1 Learn the Language 06:22
1.2 Trade Secret Law 05:21
1.3 Statutory Definition of a Trade Secret 04:40
1.4 Reasonable Efforts Requirements 07:46
1.5 How to Use Purpose to Adjust Scope 03:45
Quick Learning Check
02 Defining Confidential Information
2.1 Developing Your Strategy for CI Definition 03:02
2.2 Describing the Disclosure Circumstance 04:28
2.3 Who Can Disclose and Receive
2.4 When is Confidential Information Received 03:33
2.5 Identifying What Confidential Information Is Received 02:45
2.6 Drafting the Laundry List of CI Categories 03:59
2.7 Drafting the Four Exceptions to CI Definition 09:35
Quick Learning Check
03 Drafting NDA Core Provisions
3.1 Drafting Strategies and Effective Date Issues 04:49
3.2 NDA Parties and Their Affiliates
3.3 Use and Disclosure Restrictions 04:03
3.4 Conditional Approvals 07:26
Quick Learning Check
04 Term, Termination, and Other Provisions
4.1 NDA Term 05:37
4.2 Termination, Survival, and Post-Term Obligations 07:30
4.3 Return or Destroy Obligations 03:30
4.4 IP and Warranty Provisions 8:40
4.5 Assignment, Injunctive Relief, and Export Laws 06:00
Quick Learning Check
05 Managing Operational Risk
5.1 Avoid Indemnities and Limitations of Liability in NDAs 08:28
5.2 Avoid LDs, Non-Solicitation and Privacy 04:07
5.3 How to Apply Order of Precedence 07:53
Quick Learning Check
06 Course Completion Steps
Course Evaluation 3 questions
When the activities are complete, claim your Certificate of Completion
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