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Jonathan A. Shapiro (257199)
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE AND DORR LLP
950 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, California 93304
Tel: (650) 858-6101
Fax: (650) 858-6100 jonathan.shapiro @ wilmerhale.com
Andrea J. Robinson (pro hac vice) Timothy J. Perla (pro hac vice)
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE AND DORR LLP
60 State Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02109
Tel: (617) 526-6000
Fax: (617) 526-5000 andrea.robinson @wilmerhale.com timothy.perla@ wilmerhale.com
Attorneys for Defendant Life Insurance Company of the Southwest
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN DIVISION
JOYCE WALKER, KIM BRUCE HOWLETT, and MURIEL SPOONER, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated,
Plaintiffs, VS. LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE SOUTHWEST, a Texas corporation, and DOES 1-50
Defendant.
Case No.: CV 10-9198-JVS(RNBx)
DECLARATION OF TIMOTHY J. PERLA IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION TO MODIFY THE PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER
Before: Judge James V. Selna Date: November 14, 2011
Time: 1:30 pm Courtroom: 10C
DECLARATION OF TIMOTHY J. PERLA IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION TO MODIFY THE PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER, 10-09198-JVS(RNBx)
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DECLARATION OF TIMOTHY J. PERLA
I, Timothy J. Perla, declare as follows:
1. I am an attorney duly licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and admitted, pro hac vice, before this Court. I am a Counsel at the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, counsel for Defendant Life Insurance Company of the Southwest (“LSW’”) in the above-entitled action. I submit this Declaration in Opposition to Plaintiffs’ Motion to Modify the Pretrial Scheduling Order. I have personal knowledge of the facts stated herein and, if called as a witness, I could and would testify competently thereto.
2. To date, LSW has produced more than 82,000 pages of documents in discovery, including hard-copy documents and electronic mail. Plaintiffs have served deposition notices for four LSW witnesses in the coming weeks, and LSW is making those witnesses available on the noticed dates.
a: LSW is employing forty-five attorneys to review as many as 100,000 documents per week and tens of thousands of documents each day. Included among these reviewers are thirty-five attorneys who have been contracted solely to review electronic mail.
4. Prior to a September 14, 2011 hearing before Magistrate Judge Block, Plaintiffs’ counsel approached me and other counsel to LSW about extending the discovery
schedule. LSW’s counsel proposed that the parties should agree to a schedule that
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simultaneously provided LSW with additional time to conduct its document production and provided Plaintiffs more time as well. Plaintiffs’ counsel stated that they would propose a schedule consistent with this principle, but never submitted any such proposal.
a: Attached hereto as Exhibit A is a true and accurate copy of the transcript of the September 14, 2011 hearing before Magistrate Judge Block.
6. Attached hereto as Exhibit B is a true and correct copy of an August 18, 2011 email sent from LSW’s counsel to Plaintiffs’ counsel regarding LSW’s productions.
fo Attached hereto as Exhibit C is a true and correct copy of LSW’s Responses and Objections to Plaintiffs’ First Set of Requests for Production of Documents.
8. Attached hereto as Exhibit D is a true and correct copy of LSW’s Responses and Objections to Plaintiffs’ Second Set of Requests for Production of Documents.
9. Attached hereto as Exhibit E is a true and correct copy of LSW’s Responses and Objections to Plaintiffs’ Third Set of Requests for Production of Documents.
10. Attached hereto as Exhibit F is a true and correct copy of a July 14, 2011 email sent from Plaintiffs’ counsel to LSW’s counsel regarding the protocol for the parties’
productions.
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I declare under the penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed
this 24th day of October, 2011, at Boston, Massachusetts.
By: /s/ Timothy J. Perla Timothy J. Perla (pro hac vice)
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PROOF OF SERVICE
I am a resident of the State of California, over the age of eighteen years, and not a party to the within action. My business address is Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, 950 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304. On October 24, 2011, I served the within document(s):
DECLARATION OF TIMOTHY J. PERLA IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION TO MODIFY THE PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER
I placed the document(s) listed above in a sealed envelope with postage thereon fully prepaid, in the United States mail at Palo Alto, CA addressed as set forth below.
I personally caused to be hand delivered the document(s) listed above to the person(s) at the address(es) set forth below.
I electronically filed the document(s) listed above via the CM/ECF
system.
Charles N. Freiberg
KASOWITZ, BENSON, TORRES & FRIEDMAN LLP
101 California Street, Suite 2300
San Francisco, CA 94111
Harvey R. Levine
LEVINE & MILLER
550 West C. Street, Suite 1810 San Diego, CA 92101-8596
/s/ Jonathan A. Shapiro Jonathan A. Shapiro _4- DECLARATION OF TIMOTHY J. PERLA IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION TO MODIFY THE PRETRIAL SCHEDULING ORDER, 10-09198 JVS(RNBx)