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It won’t be, of course: it will be a fantastical, paranoid, weaponsing tract. It will comprise seven pages of closely-typed 10 point text, which will purport to commit you to all kinds of [[exclusivity|exclusivities]], [[indemnities]], and open-ended [[covenant]]s to mount legal defences to see off polite requests for regulators and the like.
It won’t be, of course: it will be a fantastical, paranoid, weaponsing tract. It will comprise seven pages of closely-typed 10 point text, which will purport to commit you to all kinds of [[exclusivity|exclusivities]], [[indemnities]], and open-ended [[covenant]]s to mount legal defences to see off polite requests for regulators and the like.


This will oblige you to engage in close combat. You will have to sift through the text looking for buried innuendoes. You will mark it up and send it back, and settle in for a 2 two week pitched battle where you and your client’s legal shell each other with thrust and counterthrust.
This will oblige you to engage in close combat. You will have to sift through the text looking for buried innuendoes. You will mark it up and send it back, and settle in for a 2 two week pitched battle where you and your client’s legal shell each other with increasingly improbable hypotheticals justifying the stances you want, respectively, to sustain or resist, in the document.


This helps no-one, of course, although it may help quell the inner road-rage that motivates [[Negotiator|those who seek out arguments for a living]].<ref>You, my young eaglet, just such a person, so do not scoff.</ref> All the same this scandalous inefficiency has attracted the attention of the [[middle management]] layer. They seek ways of making it better. Being modern, [[Thought leader|thought-leader]] types they see a blindingly obvious way of doing this: ''[[reg tech]]''. If this process were not enough of a [[Rube Goldberg machine]] already, then engaging a [[machine learning]] to [[intermediation|intermediate]] is hardly going to help. But there we have it.
===The JC’s self-adjusting confi agreement thank-you letter===
But if we were to think of this from another perspective, we can get to a simpler answer.  Start with modern theology. Apply the words of [[pragmatist’s prayer|serenity’s prayer]], and find the wisdom to know what you ''can'' change, what you ''cannot'', and go from there.
====What we cannot change====
We know we cannot stop legal eagles in our clients’ employ sending outrageous legal terms. That is their prerogative. You would sooner [[King Cnut|stop the tide washing over your throne]], or nail jelly to the ceiling. What we can instead do is ''accept'' it, as it is, without amendment (barring adding your name and address).
This will make their legal team happy.
====What we ''can'' change====
We accept it as is, only with a “but”. This but is the following: We accept subject to the following overriding principles, which prevail to the extent of inconsistency over any text in your agreement.
*This agreement deals only with preserving the confidentiality of information you provide us related to the stated project. It does not apply to any other information flowing between us and does not create any other legal obligations between us.
*We accept legal and equitable liability for ordinary breach of contract. There will be no indemnities.
*We may return, destroy or put beyond practicable use at our option.
*We will only share confidential information in our organisation on a need to know basis, but may share it with our professional advisers.
*We may disclose information to regulators where it is commercially reasonable to do so without notifying you.




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