This is part of a series of articles on transactional contracts issues by Prof. Michael L. Bloom and students in the Transactional Lab & Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School.
In the modern economy, companies collaborate, outsource, partner, integrate and otherwise work together toward increasing efficiency and offering more useful services and products. Doing so invariably requires the sharing of some amount of information, often of at least some level of sensitivity—potentially including personal information of employees and customers, confidential and proprietary business information or information subject to special regulation, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
