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Nature of Suit Code: 850
Nature of Suit: Securities, Commodities, Exchange
Cause of Action: 15:78m(a) Securities Exchange Act

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER CHANGING TIME 

CASE NO. C-04-5222-SI 1 

BORIS FELDMAN, State Bar No. 128838 

PERI NIELSEN, State Bar No. 196781 

DAVID L. LANSKY, State Bar No. 199952 

WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI 

Professional Corporation 

650 Page Mill Road 

Palo Alto, CA 94304-1050 

Telephone: (650) 493-9300 

Facsimile: (650) 565-5100 

Attorneys for Defendants 

SUPPORTSOFT, INC., RADHA R. BASU 

and BRIAN M. BEATTIE 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 

In Re SUPPORTSOFT, INC. ) CIVIL ACTION NO. C-04-5222 SI 

SECURITIES LITIGATION ) 

 ) CLASS ACTION

 ) 

) STIPULATION AND 

This Document Relates to: ) [PROPOSED] ORDER 

ALL ACTIONS ) CHANGING TIME

 ) 

 ) Before: The Honorable Susan Illston 

WHEREAS the existing pretrial schedule, set by the Court following a status conference 

in September of 2006, set May 18, 2007 as the date for the close of fact discovery; and 

WHEREAS the existing pretrial schedule established June 1, 2007 as the date for both 

parties to designate their expert witnesses, June 18, 2007 as the date for both parties to designate 

their rebuttal expert witnesses, and July 9, 2007 as the date for the close of expert discovery; and 

WHEREAS the existing pretrial schedule established the following dates for dispositive 

motions: July 27, 2007 for filing; August 24, 2007 for opposition briefs; September 7, 2007 for 

reply briefs, and September 21, 2007 for argument; and 

WHEREAS the pretrial deadlines in the existing schedule were predicated on Defendants 

being able to complete their production of documents by early February, 2007; and 

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WHEREAS Defendants subsequently learned that it would take longer to complete 

production of the documents than they had believed to be the case in September, such that 

production could not be completed prior to the end of April, 2007; and 

WHEREAS Plaintiffs do not believe that they can complete fact discovery within two to 

three weeks after receiving the remainder of Defendants’ document production; 

NOW THEREFORE, the parties, by and through the undersigned counsel, hereby 

stipulate to the following modifications in the pretrial schedule, in accordance with Local Rule 6-

2: 

1. That the date for the close of fact discovery be extended from May 18, 2007 to 

July 20, 2007; 

2. That the date for each party to designate its trial experts be extended from June 1, 

2007 to July 23, 2007; 

3. That the date for each party to designate their rebuttal experts be extended from 

June 18, 2007 to August 3, 2007; 

4. That the date for completing of expert discovery be extended from July 9, 2007 to 

August 17, 2007 

5. That the date for filing dispositive motions be extended from July 27, 2007 to 

August 13, 2007; 

6. That the date for filing opposition briefs to any dispositive motions be extended 

from August 24, 2007, to September 11, 2007; 

7. That the date for filing reply briefs in support of any dispositive motions be 

extended from September 7, 2007 to September 25, 2007; 

8. That the date for hearing the dispositive motions be extended from September 21, 

2007 to October 5, 2007; 

9. Neither the date of the pretrial conference (October 16, 2007) nor the trial date 

(October 29, 2007) need to be moved. 

10. With respect to expert witnesses, the parties make the following additional 

stipulations: 

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a. By no later than July 6, 2007, the parties will designate all general subject areas 

on which they intend to designate trial experts, provided that if information 

surfaces in depositions after July 6, 2007, additional areas for expert testimony 

may be added within three business days of the information surfacing but no later 

than July 23; 

b. The parties also stipulate that their intention, in having both parties designate their 

primary experts on or before July 23, 2007, and their rebuttal experts on or before 

August 3, 2007, is (i) that rebuttal experts shall be limited to rebutting primary 

experts; and (ii) that any primary expert designated by either party shall be 

permitted to testify at trial concerning the reports and testimony of any person 

designated as a rebuttal expert. 

Dated: March 23, 2007 WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI 

 Professional Corporation 

 By: ____/s/David L. Lansky_______________ 

BORIS FELDMAN, State Bar No. 128838 

PERI NIELSEN, State Bar No. 196781 

DAVID L. LANSKY, State Bar No. 199952 

650 Page Mill Road 

Palo Alto, CA 94304-1050 

Telephone: (650) 493-9300 

Facsimile: (650) 565-5100 

 Attorneys for Defendants 

Dated: March 23, 2007 SCHATZ NOBEL IZARD, P.C.

 By: ___/s/Mark P. Kindall_____________ 

Andrew M. Schatz 

Jeffrey S. Nobel 

Mark P. Kindall, State Bar No. 138703 

20 Church Street, Suite 1700 

Hartford, Connecticut 06103 

Tel: (860) 493-6292 

Fax: (860) 493-6290 

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LABATON SUCHAROW 

& RUDOFF LLP 

Joseph Sternberg, admitted pro hac vice

Nicole M. Zeiss 

100 Park Avenue 

New York, New York 10017 

Tel: (212) 907-0700 

Fax: (212) 818-0477 

 GLANCY BINKOW & GOLDBERG LLP 

 Lionel Z. Glancy, State Bar No. 134180 

 Peter A. Binkow, State Bar No. 173848 

 Michael Goldberg, State Bar No. 188669 

 1801 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 311 

 Los Angeles, California 90067 

 Telephone: (310) 201-9150 

 Facsimile: (310) 201-9160 

 Attorneys for Plaintiffs 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER 

 Pursuant to Stipulation, it is SO ORDERED. 

______________________ ____________________________________ 

Date Hon. Susan Illston 

 United States District Judge 

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CERTIFICATION 

 I, David L. Lansky, am the ECF User whose identification and password are being used 

to file this STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER CHANGING TIMES. In 

compliance with General Order 45.X.B, I hereby attest that Mark P. Kindall has concurred in this 

filing. 

Dated: March 23, 2007 WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI, P.C. 

 /s/David L. Lansky 

 David L. Lansky 

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