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Parties who request entry of an order to preserve the confidentiality of material disclosed in discovery shall do so by motion.  Counsel must attach the proposed order to the motion as an exhibit and base the proposed order on the Model Confidentiality Order contained in the Local Rules.  Counsel should add the bracketed language to or delete it from the Model Confidentiality Order as appropriate for a specific case.  Any other changes to the Model Confidentiality Order that the parties propose must be shown by redlining that indicates both the deletions and additions to the model text.  Counsel should send copies of the redlined version and the clean Word version of the proposed order to the Court's proposed order inbox (Proposed_Order_Blakey@ilnd.uscourts.gov).  For the redlined version, counsel should also include brief comments with any proposed changes explaining why the changes are sought.