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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 28:1001 E.R.I.S.A.

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

RE JOINT DEFENSE AGREEMENT

C-06-07339 MJJ

Daniel Feinberg – CA Bar No. 135983

Todd F. Jackson – CA Bar No. 202598

Margaret E. Hasselman – CA Bar No. 228529

Nina Wasow – CA Bar No. 202047

LEWIS, FEINBERG, LEE,

RENAKER & JACKSON, P.C.

1330 Broadway, Suite 1800

Oakland, California 94612

Telephone: (510) 839-6824

Facsimile: (510) 839-7839

Email: dfeinberg@lewisfeinberg.com

Email: tjackson@lewisfeinberg.com

Email: mhasselman@lewisfeinberg.com

Email: nwasow@lewisfeinberg.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs and the Proposed Class

(Additional counsel on signature page)

Ronald Lovitt, CA Bar No. 040921

J. Thomas Hannan, CA Bar No. 039140

Henry I. Bornstein, CA Bar No. 75885

LOVITT & HANNAN, INC.

900 Front Street, Suite 300

San Francisco, California 94111

Telephone: (415) 362-8769

Facsimile: (415) 362-7528

Facsimile: (415) 362-7528

Email: hib@lh-sf.com

Attorneys for Defendants K-M Industries

Holding Co., Inc.; K-M Industries Holding

Co. ESOP Plan Committee; and CIG ESOP

Plan Committee

(Additional counsel on signature page)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO AND OAKLAND DIVISION

THOMAS FERNANDEZ and LORA SMITH,

individually and on behalf of a class of all other

persons similarly situated,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

K-M INDUSTRIES HOLDING CO., INC.;

K-M INDUSTRIES HOLDING CO., INC.

ESOP PLAN COMMITTEE; WILLIAM E.

AND DESIREE B. MOORE REVOCABLE

TRUST; TRUSTEES OF THE WILLIAM E.

AND DESIREE B. MOORE REVOCABLE

TRUST; CIG ESOP PLAN COMMITTEE;

NORTH STAR TRUST COMPANY;

DESIREE B. MOORE REVOCABLE TRUST;

WILLIAM E. MOORE MARITAL TRUST;

WILLIAM E. MOORE GENERATIONSKIPPING TRUST; and DESIREE MOORE,

BOTH IN HER INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY

AND AS TRUSTEE OF THE WILLIAM E.

AND DESIREE B. MOORE REVOCABLE

TRUST’S SUCCESSOR TRUSTS NAMED

ABOVE,

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Case No. C-06-07339 MJJ

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED]

ORDER REGARDING JOINT

DEFENSE AGREEMENT

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WHEREAS, Defendants desire to produce responsive, non-privileged documents and

electronically stored information (“ESI”) to Plaintiffs pursuant to Plaintiffs’ Fed. R. Civ. Pro.

Rule 34 Requests for Production of Documents and/or in supplementation of Defendants’ initial

disclosures;

WHEREAS, Defendants North Star Trust Company and K-M Industries Holding Co.,

Inc., in addition to others, entered into a Joint Defense Agreement (the “JDA”) on December 3,

2004, which gives them the right to share certain privileged and confidential documents with one

another without waiving such privilege or confidentiality;

WHEREAS, Defendant K-M Industries Holding Co. intends for the purpose of exercising

its right under the JDA to review the documents and ESI produced by North Star Trust Company

to determine if Defendant K-M Industries Holding Co. wishes to assert that the produced

documents or ESI are subject to the attorney-client privilege, the attorney work product doctrine

or other privilege, immunity or protection;

WHEREAS, Plaintiffs and Defendants desire to make discovery in this litigation efficient

and cost-effective, and desire to minimize the cost and delays that may be caused by the need for

the parties to the JDA to review all responsive documents and ESI produced by another

Defendant before they are produced to Plaintiffs in order to: (1) prevent the waiver of any

appropriate claim that certain of these documents or ESI are subject to the attorney-client

privilege, attorney work product doctrine, or any other privilege, protection or immunity that may

exist with respect to such documents or ESI; and (2) comply with the terms of the Stipulated

Protective Order signed by the parties in this case concerning the designation of documents or

ESI containing confidential information;

WHEREAS, Plaintiffs and Defendants desire to prevent any production of documents or

ESI from effecting an unintentional waiver of the attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine,

or any other privilege, protection or immunity that may exist with respect to such documents or

ESI, and desire that the necessity to designate produced documents as Confidential or Highly

Confidential under the Stipulated Protective Order not cause unnecessary expense or delay;

Accordingly IT IS HEREBY AGREED AND STIPULATED by the parties through their

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counsel of record, and it is respectfully requested that the Court order that:

1. North Star Trust Company may produce documents and ESI to Plaintiffs without

first giving any other Defendant the opportunity to review such documents and ESI for privilege

or for confidentiality under the Stipulated Protective Order;

2. The fact that North Star Trust Company produces these documents and ESI will

not be deemed a waiver of the attorney-client privilege, joint defense privilege, attorney workproduct doctrine, or any other privilege, protection or immunity that may exist with respect to

such documents or ESI, or with respect to any other documents or ESI concerning the same

subject matter as is contained in the produced documents or ESI;

3. North Star Trust Company shall simultaneously serve any documents or ESI

produced to Plaintiffs on Defendant K-M Industries Holding Co.

4. If, after production of documents and ESI, either North Star Trust Company or KM Industries Holding Co., Inc., timely informs Plaintiffs that it contends that documents or ESI

produced by North Star Trust Company are subject to the attorney-client privilege, attorney workproduct protection, or any other privilege, protection or immunity, Plaintiffs will promptly return,

sequester or destroy such documents or ESI and any copies it possesses of such documents or

ESI, without further examination of it, and may not introduce such documents or ESI into

evidence, or otherwise use them in any manner unless it is determined by agreement of the parties

or by order of the Court that such documents are not privileged or otherwise protected from

discovery. If Plaintiffs have disclosed such documents or ESI to others prior to being informed of

the claim of privilege, Plaintiffs will take reasonable steps to retrieve such documents or ESI.

5. Plaintiffs agree to hold all documents and ESI that were produced to Plaintiffs

pursuant to this Stipulation without first giving other Defendants the opportunity to review such

documents as "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS EYES ONLY" according to the

terms of the Stipulated Protective Order signed by the parties until 30 calendar days after such

documents and ESI were received by K-M Industries Holding Co., Inc.

6. Within 30 calendar days after receipt of documents and ESI that were produced to

Plaintiffs pursuant to this Stipulation, K-M Industries Holding Co., Inc. agrees to review such

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documents and to designate any documents they intend to be protected by the Stipulated

Protective Order. Plaintiffs'obligation under Paragraph 4 to hold all documents received from

North Star Trust Company as "HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL" will expire upon 30 calendar days or

upon K-M Industries Holding Co., Inc.’s review and designation, whichever occurs sooner. When

K-M Industries Holding Co., Inc. has completed its review and designation under this paragraph,

only those documents designated by K-M Industries Holding Co., Inc. to be protected by the

Stipulated Protective Order will covered by the terms of the Stipulated Protective Order.

7. By entering into this Stipulation, no party waives any rights that they would

otherwise have had to challenge the withholding of any documents or ESI by any other party

pursuant to a claim of privilege, and all parties retain their rights to challenge any such claim of

privilege, including a claim made with respect to any documents or ESI produced pursuant to this

Stipulation.

8. Nothing in this Stipulation shall affect any party’s right to challenge, under the

terms of the Stipulated Protective Order, the designation of any document as “Confidential” or

“Highly Confidential.”

Dated: August 30, 2007 Respectfully submitted,

LEWIS, FEINBERG, LEE,

RENAKER & JACKSON, P.C.

By: /s/

Margaret E. Hasselman

Peter Rukin – CA State Bar No. 178336

RUKIN HYLAND DORIA

& TINDALL LLP

100 Pine Street, Suite 725

San Francisco, CA

Telephone: (415) 421-1800

Facsimile: (415) 421-1700

Email: peterrukin@rhddlaw.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

and the Proposed Class

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Dated: August _30, 2007 LOVITT & HANNAN, INC.

By: ___/s/___________________________

Henry Bornstein

Attorneys for Defendant K-M Industries

Holding Co., Inc.; K-M Industries Holding

Co., Inc. ESOP Plan Committee; and CIG

ESOP Plan Committee

Dated: August 30, 2007 HENNIGAN, BENNETT & DORMAN LLP

By: ___/s/____________________________

Robert L. Palmer

Attorneys for Defendant William E. and

Desiree B. Moore Revocable Trust; Desiree

B. Moore Revocable Trust; William E.

Moore Marital Trust; William E. and

Desiree B. Moore Revocable Trust

Generation-Skipping Trust; and Desiree

Moore

Dated: August 30, 2007 MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP

By: ____/s/____________________________

Nicole Diller

Attorneys for Defendant North Star Trust

Company

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: __________________________ __________________________________

Hon. Martin J. Jenkins

United States District Judge

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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Judge Martin J. Jenkins

08/30/07

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