I don't doubt at all your personal experience, in these particular situations. I'm sure in the cases you handled, involving highly compensated individuals, there was a need for keeping secret the general misconduct on both sides (and I appreciate you acknowledging that). I'm sure there were good people involved in many of the cases you handled, too. ... I just think you grossly overstated in your comment the latent employee desire for NDAs, and this column provides plenty of evidence – from a White House report to numerous anecdotal cases in the media – of companies increasingly misusing this silencing strategy. If you can find equivalent evidence of employees clamoring for more NDAs, I would appreciate you posting that, and I would be eager to read about it.