NDA & confidentiality
Articles on NDA & confidentiality from LegalAgent AI Legal Lab — practical review points, clause-level checks, and AI-assisted legal workflows.
Articles tagged NDA & confidentiality
Articles on NDA & confidentiality from LegalAgent AI Legal Lab — practical review points, clause-level checks, and AI-assisted legal workflows.
Reading an English NDA: Essential Clauses Compared with Japanese Agreements
A practical guide to English NDAs, covering confidential information, permitted use and recipients, survival periods, residuals, injunctions, and translation pitfalls.
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Responding to Labour Standards Inspection Office Investigations: Inspections, Correction Recommendations and Reports in Practice
In a Labour Standards Inspection Office investigation, the question is whether the books match how people actually work. Based on the inspection authority and the difference between correction recommendations and guidance notices, this article considers how to describe the improvements made in the report.
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AI Meeting Minutes Tools and Confidentiality Obligations: Gaps That Arise When Recording and Inputting NDA-Covered Meetings
Recording an NDA-covered meeting with an AI minutes tool may send the audio to an external service. Separate notice of recording from third-party disclosure, check the terms of use and the handling of personal information, and set internal operating rules.
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Contracts for Work vs. Quasi-Mandate Contracts: Key Points When Reviewing Service Agreements
Contracts for work and quasi-mandates cannot be distinguished by the title or the presence of deliverables alone. Confirm the scope of the promise to complete and the obligation to perform services, and consider, contract by contract, when fees are paid, how fees are settled if the contract ends midway and how defects are handled.
Read articleNDA Review Basics: Definitions, a Checklist and Risks by Position
In an NDA, it is important to decide both the scope of the information to be protected and the conditions under which it can be handled in practice. The disclosing party and the receiving party care about different clauses regarding oral disclosure, sharing with investors and retention of backups.
Read articleWhat Is a Confidentiality Clause? Review Practice for Contracts Other Than NDAs
Confidentiality clauses need to be checked in contracts other than NDAs as well. How day-to-day operations and end-of-contract management work depends on with whom information may be shared, whether independently developed information can be excluded, and how AI inputs and logs are handled.
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We Contributed to the BPaaS Advent Calendar
Our Representative Noriaki Asato's article "Survival Strategy in the Age of AI: Why I Founded 'LegalAgent, a Law Firm for the Generative AI Era'" was published in the "BPaaS Advent Calendar" hosted by Kubell.
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