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An MPT task memo asks you to draft an opinion letter to the executive director of a nonprofit youth program. A volunteer was injured during a weekend cleanup event and has threatened to sue. The File includes the volunteer's signed waiver, an incident report, staff text messages about a broken ladder, and an email from a major donor asking whether the nonprofit is "legally in the clear." The director asks whether she may forward your legal analysis to the donor and to all board members.
The Library contains a statute enforcing volunteer waivers for ordinary negligence, a case refusing to enforce a waiver for gross negligence, and a case emphasizing that legal advice prepared for a client should not be shared casually with outsiders.
Discuss how the opinion letter should handle audience, confidentiality, tone, the waiver issue, the broken-ladder facts, and practical next steps for the nonprofit.