Prepare the following letters as if you were a paralegal with the law firm of O'Connor Hackett & Black, 1000 Madison Way, Madison, Wisconsin 53606.

You are assigned the preparation of a letter that explains the status of a pending insurance defense litigation matter. The matter is set for trial on November 15 of this year. Two depositions have been takenthe plaintiff's and the defendant's. Interrogatories have been answered by both sides and a settlement conference is scheduled with the judge in the case on October 31. The judge is Eve G. Halsey of Ohio Common Pleas Court in Columbus, Ohio. You expect that a representative of the restaurant where the incident took place will attend the settlement conference and that an insurance company representative also will attend as required by the local court rules. Your firm will be calling several witnesses from the restaurant to testify at the trial and you and the partner on the case, Wally Taylor, will be preparing these witnesses to testify beginning in October. Send this letter to your client, Schroeder Insurance Enterprise, 250 W. Wilson Street, Hinsdale, IL 60521. The person you deal with at the insurance company is Thomas Kennedy, a claims manager. You are sending this letter via Express Mail. The letter is being typed by Taylor's secretary Jan Marie Maggio. She will send a blind copy of the letter to an associate on the case, Janis Farrell. She also will send a carbon copy of the letter to Mr. Taylor.