Common use of Legal Compulsion to Disclose Clause in Contracts

Legal Compulsion to Disclose. If the Recipient Party or any of the Recipient Party's Representatives becomes legally compelled (by oral questions, interrogatories, requests for confidential information, documents, subpoena, civil investigative demand or similar process) to disclose any of the Confidential Information (after using its commercially reasonable efforts to avoid such disclosure), the Recipient Party or the Recipient Party's Representative to whom the request was made or who is legally compelled as aforesaid shall provide the applicable Disclosing Party with prompt written notice of same so that the Disclosing Party may either seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy. If such protective order or remedy is not obtained, the Recipient Party or the Recipient Party's Representative, as the case may be, shall furnish only that portion of the Confidential Information which it is advised by counsel is legally required and will, where permitted under applicable law, use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain reliable assurance that the Confidential Information will be accorded confidential treatment.

Legal Compulsion to Disclose. If the Recipient Party or any of the Recipient Party's Representatives Representative is requested or becomes legally compelled (by oral questions, interrogatories, requests for confidential information, documents, subpoena, civil investigative demand demand, rules applicable to public disclosure by crown corporations or similar process) to disclose any of the Confidential Information (after using its commercially reasonable efforts to avoid such disclosure), the Recipient Party or the Recipient Party's Representative other party to whom the request was made or who is legally compelled as aforesaid shall provide the applicable Disclosing Party with prompt written notice of same so that the Disclosing Party may either seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy. If such protective order or remedy is not obtained, the Recipient Party or the Recipient Party's Representative, as the case may be, shall furnish only that portion of the Confidential Information which it is advised by counsel is legally required and will, where permitted under applicable law, use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain reliable assurance that the Confidential Information will be accorded confidential treatment.