<div dir="ltr">Thanks Grace for sharing this. <div><br></div><div>I would like suggest we certify to our lawyers an advocacy request --- that is, the same thing this Jones Day memo is. </div><div><br></div><div>Could Sidley and Adler be tasked with a similar memo directed at the Board's MEM idea?</div><div><br></div><div>[I am concerned that we have our lawyers answering specific questions, and the Board's lawyers rolling all over the lawn. I would like an even playing field. The memo from JD is an extraordinary document for lawyers to have prepared, but if this is the sort of process we are in, it requires us all to be on a common approach.]</div><div><br></div><div>Jordan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 October 2015 at 17:38, Grace Abuhamad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grace.abuhamad@icann.org" target="_blank">grace.abuhamad@icann.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div>Dear all, </div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px">Attached please find a memo that Jones Day lawyers just sent to Sidley and Adler to respond to some of the characterizations of Jones Day's advice. </p>
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<p style="margin:0px">This memo is being forwarded to the CCWG-Accountability for transparency.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px">This memo was also circulated to the ICANN Board after it was sent to CCWG-Accountability's Counsel.</p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px">—Grace</p></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></div><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div><div dir="auto"><div>
Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Kate Wallace <<a href="mailto:kwallace@jonesday.com" target="_blank">kwallace@jonesday.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> October 1, 2015 at 8:49:24 PM PDT<br><b>To:</b> "Gregory, Holly" <<a href="mailto:holly.gregory@sidley.com" target="_blank">holly.gregory@sidley.com</a>>, "Rosemary E. Fei" <<a href="mailto:rfei@adlercolvin.com" target="_blank">rfei@adlercolvin.com</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Lizanne Thomas <<a href="mailto:lthomas@jonesday.com" target="_blank">lthomas@jonesday.com</a>>, <<a href="mailto:jlevee@jonesday.com" target="_blank">jlevee@jonesday.com</a>>, "Kevin B Espinola" <<a href="mailto:kbespinola@jonesday.com" target="_blank">kbespinola@jonesday.com</a>>, John Jeffrey
<<a href="mailto:john.jeffrey@icann.org" target="_blank">john.jeffrey@icann.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:samantha.eisner@icann.org" target="_blank">samantha.eisner@icann.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Continued Counsel Dialogue</b><br><br></div></blockquote><div><span></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Dear Holly and Rosemary,</font> <br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">In an effort to continue our dialogue, please see the attached document responding to some of the issues raised in the slides you distributed on 29 September 2015.
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