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	~~{{g}}~~{{a\|brokerage\|}}If you are a [[broker-dealer]], your basic terms for handling orders and stuff. The theory is that [[TOB]]s are mostly harmless — only 97 pages long, of course — and [[broker]]s bang them out at the inception of the relationship expecting that, if the client even notices them at all, they get stuck in a draw and no-one ever thinks about them again. The last thing anyone wants is for the client to send the TOBs to their [[legal eagles]].		{{a\|brokerage\|}}If you are a [[broker-dealer]], your basic terms for handling orders and stuff. The theory is that [[TOB]]s are mostly harmless — only 97 pages long, of course — and [[broker]]s bang them out at the inception of the relationship expecting that, if the client even notices them at all, they get stuck in a draw and no-one ever thinks about them again. The last thing anyone wants is for the client to send the TOBs to their [[legal eagles]].

	This can happen. Indeed, a client’s reaction to its broker’s [[terms of business]] is a pretty good gauge of how badly in need of streamlining its own [[legal]] department is. If you have people prepared to argue the toss about TOBs, you have a working illustration of [[Parkinson’s Law]] before your very eyes. In these austere times, it is quite a comfort to see that cost-cutting hasn’t hit all of the [[mediocre lawyer]]’s favourite habitats.		This can happen. Indeed, a client’s reaction to its broker’s [[terms of business]] is a pretty good gauge of how badly in need of streamlining its own [[legal]] department is. If you have people prepared to argue the toss about TOBs, you have a working illustration of [[Parkinson’s Law]] before your very eyes. In these austere times, it is quite a comfort to see that cost-cutting hasn’t hit all of the [[mediocre lawyer]]’s favourite habitats.