[chrisbennet]

Contracts may be full of crazy over reaching stuff. When faced with a contract like this, you ask if you can modify it. If they say, “Take it or leave it.” you turn down the offer.

If they say yes, find a lawyer and get it looked over.

Sometimes you can just cross out stuff, modify or add stuff i.e. add a time limit to an open ended NDA, reduce the scope of a non-compete or eliminate it all together. After a while you get to know what to look for.

Once I was given a contract that stipulated that, if there were errors in my work product, I would be ”liable for estimated loss of profits”. (!!!)

I quoted the offending line and wrote: “Nice try but yeah, no.” I had my lawyer fix it and they were a great client.