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From:drew.fossum@enron.com
To:britt.davis@enron.com
Subject:Anderton
Cc:michael.moran@enron.com
Bcc:michael.moran@enron.com
Date:Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:30:00 -0800 (PST)

Steve Anderton called today and has cleared the arbitration with his firm's
conflict committee. He's sending an email tomorrow describing the specific
results of his conflict check. I'll forward it to you both for review. From
my discussions with Steve, I think he'd do a great job as our arbitrator.
Are we all in agreement on using Steve or are there some other competing
candidates? Do you guys want to talk to him or meet with him first? Britt,
do we need a retention agreement with Steve if we decide to use him? A
self-serving retention agreement may be a good idea if we think OneOk might
challenge our arbitrator based on alleged bias. Also, if we are good to go
with Steve, I'd like to send him a package of the key documents and then meet
with him to discuss the case sometime in the next week or two. Britt, any
concerns with my doing that as long as I don't send him anything privileged?
(I'm assuming for the sake of safety that the attorney client privilege
doesn't apply to our communications with our arbitrator unless instructed
otherwise). He is down in Houston two days a week so we could do it there.
DF