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 [[Legal eagle]]s will of course recognise this as not an [[acceptance]] at all, but a ''[[counter-offer]]''. This being the most elementary aspect of contract law, it will not be lost on your client’s [[legal department]] either. Nor should it be: it is not meant to be a trick. It ''is'' a counter offer.
-Why does this advance anything? Well, like so: it shifts debate from your client’s laborious tract to your brief one. You have stated your position succinctly. Your client can, on its own dime, work if your proposal is fair (it is, by the way). This aligns interests correctly: since they have elected to serve up a Biblical agreement; they can trawl through the damn thing, if they must, ensuring your headline counterthrust doesn’t undermine their vital protections (it doesn’t).
+Why does this advance anything? Well, like so: it shifts debate from your client’s laborious tract to your brief one. You have stated your position succinctly. Your client can, on its own dime, work if your proposal is fair (it is, by the way). This aligns interests correctly: since they have elected to serve up a Biblical agreement; they can trawl through the damn thing, if they must, ensuring your headline counterthrust doesn’t undermine their vital protections (it doesn’t). But in any case, if they wish to re-impose their most precious points they must extract those out of their nonsense omnibus, and put them on your half-page. And there, you can ''see'' it, and quickly decide whether to agree it or not.
-But it obliges your client to bring to ''your'' attention any non-standard points it wishes to hold you to, rather than expecting you to find them in its byzantine peroration. In any case the worst outcome is that you have moved the theatre of conflict from a sprawling tract of impenetrable verbosity to a half-page of bullet points. But there will be many clients who will just agree it.
+In any case it obliges your client to bring to ''your'' attention any non-standard points it wishes to hold you to, rather than expecting ''you'' to find them in its byzantine peroration. In any case the worst outcome is that you have moved the theatre of conflict from a sprawling tract of impenetrable verbosity to a half-page of bullet points. But there will be many clients who will just agree it. After all, what you have done, in simple terms, is stated the basic principles of a fair confidentiality agreement.
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