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Nature of Suit Code: 360
Nature of Suit: Other Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Personal Injury

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MURPHY PEARSON 

BRADLEY & FEENEY 

A Profc~sional Corporation 

December 28, 2012 

Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley 

US District Court for the Northern District of California 

Courtroom F 

450 Golden Gate Ave., 151

h Fl. 

San Francisco, CA 941 02 

Re: Jenkins v. Mandelbaum 

Case No. C-11-00211-EMC (JSC) 

Our File No.: CNAL.114787.1 

Dear Honorable Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley: 

WWW.MPBF.COM 

88 Kearny Street, Suite 1000 

San Francisco, CA 94108 

Telephone 415-788-1900 

Facsimile 415-393-8087 

Pursuant to paragraph 3 of Your Honor's Notice of Settlement and Settlement 

Conference Order dated November 14, 2012 in tlie above-titled matter, Defendant Hiscock & 

Barclay, LLP ("H&B") respectfully requests the Court excuse its East Coast representatives from 

personally attending the upcoming January 8, 2013 settlement conference. We have met and 

conferred with plaintiffs counsel, Richard Idell, to determine if plaintiff has any objections to 

Defendant Hiscock & Barclay, LLP's absence from personally attending the settlement 

conference. Plaintiffs counsel agreed that the reasons for the excuse from personally attending 

the settlement conference were reasonable and warranted under the circumstances and plaintiff 

has no objection. 

Attached are fully executed declarations from Robert A. Barrer, an attorney and partner 

with Defendant Hiscock & Barclay, LLP, as well as William H. Jeberg, an attorney and partner 

with Mendes and Mount, LLP (representatives of H&B' s insurance carrier for this case). The 

declarations confirm that H&B's attorney of record, James A. Murphy of Murphy, Pearson, 

Bradley & Feeney, will personally appear at the scheduled settlement conference and will have 

full authority to negotiate in good faith a resolution, if possible, of the claims against H&B. 

What's more, the declarations provide that H&B's offices are located on the East Coast and there 

are no direct flights from any of the cities in which H&B has an office. As a result, personal 

appearance of one of H&B' s partners at the scheduled settlement conference in San Francisco 

would create an undue expense and burden on their work and take them away from matters that 

require attendance in the office. 

Furthermore, settlement of this case depends in large part to the outcome of the related 

federal action, entitled Fredianelli v. Mandelbaum (Case No. 3:11-cv-03232-EMC), which is 

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still pending and scheduled for summary judgment hearing on January 23, 2013. The outcome in 

Fredianelli will define plaintiffs' alleged scope of damages, which at the moment, remain largely 

speculative and contingent upon potential outcomes in the Fredianelli lawsuit. Because 

plaintiffs alleged damages are contingent upon resolution and/or adjudication in Fredianelli 

(which will not be resolved, if at all, before the upcoming summary judgment hearing), 

negotiation at the scheduled January 8, 2013 settlement conference will most likely be stalled. 

To that end, personal appearance and the expense associated with that appearance by H&B is not 

warranted. 

In closing, H&B respectfully requests that this court excuse H&B from personally 

appearing at the January 8, 2013 settlement conference and permit their representatives to appear 

by telephone. Of course, counsel for H&B, James A. Murphy, will appear in person at the 

settlement conference with full authority to settle the action, if at all possible. 

Thank you for your consideration. 

Enclosure 

JEF .20519823 .doc 

cc: [All Counsel ofRecord] 

Very truly yours, 

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l-)0(trJarn~~.~urphy Jason E. Fellner 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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GRANTED

Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley 

Dated: January 4, 2013

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