role: user

text:
ok - i want to draft a note to Sarah.  i want to include that i had a long discussion with Lisa and:

  My understanding now is that Lisa agrees
  mediation is not limited by Missouri law, and
  that we can work toward a genuinely fair
  agreement beyond what a court would typically
  order, even if Missouri law remains one
  consideration in the background.


role: assistant

text:
Here’s a clean draft to Sarah:

Sarah —

I wanted to update you after a long conversation with Lisa.

My understanding now is that Lisa agrees mediation is not limited by Missouri law, and that we can work toward a genuinely fair agreement beyond what a court would typically order, even if Missouri law remains one consideration in the background.

That does not mean legal realities disappear, but it does seem important to me because it suggests the mediation may have more room in it than a strictly Missouri-law-first framing would imply.

I am not saying that resolves anything by itself. I do think it affects how I should think about the mediation and how strongly to press the broader fairness framing.

I would be interested in your reaction to that, and in whether it changes your view at all about the best way to approach the opening of mediation.

Karl

If you want, I can make it:
- more neutral,
- more forceful,
- or more precise about what Lisa actually said.