Please "reply" to this Prompt, with your name (paste in your text, rather than attach a document) You have received the following email from Bridget, a new manager who reports to you. You are not going to reply to Bridget directly. Rather, you are going to draft a proposed Dear Bridget response and forward it, along with her email, to your superiors for their pre-approval before you sent it to Bridget. The superiors include the company's General Counsel, and your own supervising manager, Jan Deming, as well as the CEO. Your proposed response, for which you seek approval will show that you have a command of legal basics and can properly distill the situation down to the core issue and provide a principled recommendation. Drafting this, will require you to draw on your command of the IRAC structure found in the SitCom Workshop Exercise, the model response to the Adams exercise, and those posted in Discussions. Unlike the Exercise, the Rules for this SitCom are found in the e-textbook, Audio Rules, and lectures on agency. Here is the original email Bridget sent you: To: You From: Bridget, Junior Manager Date: Re: Slight problem with the Hudson sale closing Hi, As you know, we retained Andrew as our agent to sell our Hudson property. I told Andrew we would not accept any bid below $300,000. Andrew negotiated a contract to sell it to Pook Industries for $380,000, which you approved, and we scheduled the closing for tomorrow. I have just learned that Malcolm Pook (the President of Pook Industries ) is not only Andrews golfing buddy but theres more. Prior to our signing the contract, Andrew found out that the current market value of the Hudson property is about $450,000 because a the buzz is that shopping mall is going to be built nearby which we did not know. Three weeks ago, Andrew formed a real estate partnership with Malcolm Pook, called AM Holdings, LLC. The sales contract we are signing specifies that AC Holdings be named as the owner on the new deed after the sale. Again, we did not really catch the importance of that. Yesterday, I emailed Andrew and Malcolm saying a problem has just come that may prevent us from transferring the deed on the property at the closing tomorrow. Pook replied if we fail to close tomorrow, he will sue us based on the $20,000 lateness/delay penalty clause in the contract. He warned me not to try to retrade the deal. He threatened that if he ends up paying more than $380,000 to get the Hudson property, he will sue us for the balance plus his attorneys fees. He did not deny that Andrew is his partner in AM Holdings but said that makes no difference. Should we go ahead with the closing tomorrow? Thanks. Jan [Class: Your opening sentence to your boss, Jan, can be along the lines of "Hi Jan, I am forwarding the email I just received from Bridget, Junior Manager, asking whether we should go ahead with the closing tomorrow. Here is a draft of my proposed response to Bridget for your pre-approval and comment....." Note - you are NOT posting anonymously this time. Please include your name. Thanks.]