I believe there is a lot of ignorance about NDAs, in particular by people who just default to NDA'ing all external parties. Doing a lot of NDAs can be helpful

I believe there is a lot of ignorance about NDAs, in particular by people who just default to NDA'ing all external parties. Doing a lot of NDAs can be helpful in creating a legal record that you communicated with another party. Enforcing an NDA is more difficult then a lot of people think. If you have a legal department you can threaten to sue an individual for anything including breach of an NDA and in that sense it can be effective. But the only times an NDA has been enforced in my working experience is when there is real theft of intellectual property and you don't need an NDA to prevail in that situation. https://www.acc.com/resource-library/issues-enforcing-nondisclosure-agreements-united-states https://www.acc.com/resource-library/issues-enforcing-nondis...