Somebody suggested today having a one-page piece of paper, but on a technical litigation matter, where people really don't understand the issues, they can read that one-page piece of paper and still want to talk to and ask questions of the author of the document. The status of litigation is not necessarily self-evident.
I might write a line stating that mediation was attempted and failed. Somebody might want to know, was it a serious attempt; was it our idea, or whose idea was it; and why did it fail or what happened? I find that perfectly normal. As a senior lawyer, I'm accustomed to giving technical legal briefings on litigation files; it's my job.