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

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.