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I just started saying, "If you are in need of my services, and require me to sign an NDA, you must cover the legal fees necessary for my choice of lawyer to review it."
Yeah so Docusign put a stop to that.
NDAs are hard; there are good reasons for them, but they are too-easily proffered and too-often signed.
Where possible, they are far more humane if they have a reasonable end-date.
At the end of the day, these agreements (and non-competes/non-poaching clauses), among well-intentioned people, can boil down to the spirit of Stuart Freedman's request [1] that Gerry Garvey memorialize an oath: "I swear that I will not screw you unnecessarily."
These agreements, however, are a bulwark against the ill-intentioned and malevolent.
You might still be within the edit window, I don’t remember how long it is
I clicked around and couldn't see the actual text either...
It is advertised as We’ve created a crowd-sourced, open-source standard NDA that companies can adopt as their own.
The desire to trademark the name makes sense, so that "oneNDA" can mean something, but to reap the true benefit of the crowd, CC-BY-SA would be a much better fit than the present CC-BY-ND, no?
SEVERANCE AGREEMENT
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by and between __[YOUR LEGAL NAME]__, government ID __________,
address _____________ (the “Receiving Party”), and _________ Inc
having its registered office at ________________________ (the “Disclosing Party”).
I have of my own free accord elected to undergo the procedure known as Severance.
I give consent to severe my memories between my work life and my personal life.
I acknowledge that once the procedure is complete,
I'll be unable to access my personal memories whilst at the severed floor.
Nor will I retain work memories when I return home at the end of the day.
I make these statements freely.
Signature: _________________
Date: _________________
"OneNDA - We've Standardised the NDA"