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Parties Involved:
John Chapman
Plaintiff
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Defendant
Steve Rabin
Plaintiff

Document Text:

STIPULATED [PROPOSED] PROTECTIVE ORDER

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

Michael P. Esser (Cal. Bar No. 268634)

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP

555 California Street

San Francisco, CA 94104

Telephone: (415) 439-1400

Facsimile: (415) 439-1500

Email: michael.esser@kirkland.com

Emily Nicklin (admitted pro hac vice)

Gabor Balassa (admitted pro hac vice)

Christina Breisacher (admitted pro hac vice)

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP

300 N. LaSalle 

Chicago, IL 60654

Telephone: (312) 862-2400

Facsimile: (312) 862-2200

Email: enicklin@kirkland.com

Email: gabor.balassa@kirkland.com

Email: christina.briesacher@kirkland.com

Attorneys for Defendant 

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP

Jahan C. Sagafi (Cal. Bar No. 224887)

Katrina L. Eiland (Cal. Bar No. 275701)

Julia Rabinovich (Cal. Bar No. 290730)

OUTTEN & GOLDEN LLP

One Embarcadero Center, 38th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111 

Telephone: (415) 638-8800

Facsimile: (415) 638-8810

E-mail: jsagafi@outtengolden.com

E-mail: keiland@outtengolden.com

E-mail: jrabinovich@outtengolden.com

[Additional counsel listed on next page]

Attorneys for Plaintiffs and Proposed 

Class and Collective Members

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

STEVE RABIN and JOHN CHAPMAN, 

on behalf of themselves, and all others similarly 

situated,

Plaintiffs,

v.

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP, 

Defendant.

Case No. 16-cv-02276-JST

Hon. Jon S. Tigar

STIPULATED [PROPOSED]

PROTECTIVE ORDER

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Adam T. Klein (admitted pro hac vice) 

OUTTEN & GOLDEN LLP

3 Park Avenue, 29th Floor

New York, NY 10016 

Telephone: (212) 245-1000

Facsimile: (646) 509-2060

Email: atk@outtengolden.com

Daniel Kohrman (admitted pro hac vice)

Laurie McCann (admitted pro hac vice)

Dara Smith (admitted pro hac vice)

AARP FOUNDATION LITIGATION

601 E. Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20049

Telephone: (202) 434-2060

Facsimile: (202) 434-2082

E-mail: dkohrman@aarp.org

E-mail: lmccann@aarp.org

E-mail: dsmith@aarp.org

Jennifer L. Liu (Cal. Bar No. 279370)

THE LIU LAW FIRM, P.C.

1170 Market Street, Suite 700

San Francisco, CA 94102

Telephone: (415) 896-4260

Facsimile: (415) 231-0011

E-mail: jliu@liulawpc.com

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1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of 

confidential, proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public disclosure 

and from use for any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation may be warranted. Accordingly, 

the parties hereby stipulate to and petition the court to enter the following Stipulated Protective 

Order. The parties acknowledge that this Order does not confer blanket protections on all disclosures 

or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords from public disclosure and use extends 

only to the limited information or items that are entitled to confidential treatment under the 

applicable legal principles. The parties further acknowledge, as set forth in Section 12.3, below, that 

this Stipulated Protective Order does not entitle them to file confidential information under seal; 

Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures that must be followed and the standards that will be 

applied when a party seeks permission from the court to file material under seal.

2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Challenging Party: a Party or Non-Party that challenges the designation of 

information or items under this Order.

2.2 “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items: information (regardless of how it is 

generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under Federal Rule of 

Civil Procedure 26(c).

2.3 Counsel (without qualifier): Counsel for Plaintiffs and counsel for Defendant. 

2.4 Designating Party: a Party or Non-Party that designates information or items as 

“CONFIDENTIAL.” 

2.5 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the medium 

or manner in which it is generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony, 

transcripts, and tangible things), that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to 

discovery in this matter.

2.6 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent to 

the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a 

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consultant in this action.

2.7 “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items: 

information (regardless of how it is generated, stored or maintained) or tangible things that (i) relate 

to highly sensitive financial or personal information about any individual that could be embarrassing 

or otherwise prejudicial to the person whose information is revealed or (ii) relate to the business 

strategy of the Designating Party or could prejudice the Designating Party’s ongoing business 

relationships (or reasonably prospective business relationships).

2.8 House Counsel: attorneys or their staff that work in the in-house legal department of 

a Party to this action. House Counsel does not include Outside Counsel of Record or any other 

outside counsel.

2.9 Non-Party: any natural person, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal 

entity not named as a Party to this action.

2.10 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees, partners, or principals of a Party 

to this action but are retained to represent or advise a Party to this action and have appeared in this 

action on behalf of that Party or are affiliated with a law firm which has appeared on behalf of that 

Party, or any employees and/or staff of the Outside Counsel.

2.11 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees, 

partners, principals, independent contractors, consultants, retained experts, and Outside Counsel (and 

their support staffs).

2.12 Producing Party: a Party or Non-Party that produces Disclosure or Discovery 

Material in this action.

2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services 

(e.g., photocopying, videotaping, translating, preparing exhibits or demonstrations, and organizing, 

storing, or retrieving data in any form or medium) and their employees and subcontractors. 

Professional Vendors may include persons within a Party that provide litigation support services to 

outside clients.

2.14 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as 

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“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

2.15 Receiving Party: a Party that receives Disclosure or Discovery Material from a 

Producing Party.

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order cover not only Protected Material (as 

defined above), but also (1) any information copied or extracted from Protected Material; (2) all 

copies, excerpts, summaries, or compilations of Protected Material; and (3) any testimony, 

conversations, or presentations by Parties or their Counsel that might reveal Protected Material. 

However, the protections conferred by this Stipulation and Order do not cover the following 

information: (a) any information that is in the public domain at the time of disclosure to a Receiving 

Party or becomes part of the public domain after its disclosure to a Receiving Party as a result of 

publication not involving a violation of this Order, including becoming part of the public record 

through trial or otherwise; and (b) any information known to the Receiving Party prior to the 

disclosure or obtained by the Receiving Party after the disclosure from a source who obtained the 

information lawfully and under no obligation of confidentiality to the Designating Party. Any use of 

Protected Material at trial shall be governed by a separate agreement or order.

4. DURATION

Even after final disposition of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this 

Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court order 

otherwise directs. Final disposition shall be deemed to be the later of (1) dismissal of all claims and 

defenses in this action, with or without prejudice; and (2) final judgment herein after the completion 

and exhaustion of all appeals, rehearings, remands, trials, or reviews of this action, including the 

time limits for filing any motions or applications for extension of time pursuant to applicable law.

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each Party or 

Non-Party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take care to 

limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards. 

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Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are shown 

to be clearly unjustified or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily 

encumber or retard the case development process or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on 

other parties) expose the Designating Party to sanctions.

If it comes to a Designating Party’s attention that information or items that it designated for 

protection do not qualify for protection, that Designating Party must promptly notify all other Parties 

that it is withdrawing the mistaken designation.

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designations. Except as otherwise provided in this Order 

(see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a) below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, 

Disclosure or Discovery Material that qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so 

designated before the material is disclosed or produced.

Designation in conformity with this Order requires:

(a) for information in documentary form (e.g., paper or electronic documents, but 

excluding transcripts of depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party 

affix the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES 

ONLY” to each page that contains protected material. 

A Party or Non-Party that makes original documents or materials available for inspection need not 

designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which material it would 

like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all of the material made 

available for inspection shall be deemed “CONFIDENTIAL.” After the inspecting Party has 

identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the Producing Party must determine which 

documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under this Order. Then, before producing the 

specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” legend to each page that contains Protected 

Material. 

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings, such 

testimony shall be subject to this Order provided it is designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

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“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” orally or in writing either (i) at the 

time such testimony is given or (ii) within 30 days of receipt by the Party of the final transcript of 

such testimony. All information disclosed during a deposition shall be deemed to have been 

designated “CONFIDENTIAL” until the thirty-day period set forth in this paragraph has expired. 

However, during the thirty-day period set forth above, if a Party wishes to use deposition testimony 

in a filing, that Party must first advise the Designating Party in writing of the material it intends to 

use, to give the Designating Party a reasonable opportunity to make an appropriate confidentiality 

designation.

(c) for information produced in some form other than documentary and for any other 

tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the container or 

containers in which the information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” 

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate. If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure to 

designate qualified information or items does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s 

right to secure protection under this Order for such material. Upon timely correction of a 

designation, the Receiving Party must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is treated in 

accordance with the provisions of this Order. The Designating Party will provide replacement pages 

and/or documents with a “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY” stamp for each corrected page, and the Receiving Party agrees to destroy any 

unmarked original pages and/or documents within two weeks of receiving the corrected pages.

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Any Party may challenge a designation of confidentiality at 

any time (including the failure to designate Discovery Material as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating 

Party’s confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable, substantial unfairness, 

unnecessary economic burdens, or a significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not 

waive its right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge 

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promptly after the original designation is disclosed.

6.2 Meet and Confer. The Challenging Party shall initiate the dispute resolution process 

by providing written notice of each designation it is challenging and describing the basis for each 

challenge. To avoid ambiguity as to whether a challenge has been made, the written notice must 

recite that the challenge to confidentiality is being made in accordance with this specific paragraph 

of the Protective Order. The parties shall attempt to resolve each challenge in good faith and must 

begin the process by conferring directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication 

are not sufficient) within 14 days of the date of service of notice. In conferring, the Challenging 

Party must explain the basis for its belief that the confidentiality designation was not proper and 

must give the Designating Party an opportunity to review the designated material, to reconsider the 

circumstances, and, if no change in designation is offered, to explain the basis for the chosen 

designation. A Challenging Party may proceed to the next stage of the challenge process only if it 

has engaged in this meet and confer process first or establishes that the Designating Party is 

unwilling to participate in the meet and confer process in a timely manner.

6.3 Judicial Intervention. If the Parties cannot resolve a challenge without court 

intervention, the Designating Party shall file and serve a motion to retain confidentiality under Civil 

Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) within 21 days of the 

initial notice of challenge or within 14 days of the parties agreeing that the meet and confer process 

will not resolve their dispute, whichever is earlier. Each such motion must be accompanied by a 

competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer 

requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph. Failure by the Designating Party to make such a 

motion including the required declaration within 21 days (or 14 days, if applicable) shall 

automatically waive the confidentiality designation for each challenged designation. In addition, the 

Challenging Party may file a motion challenging a confidentiality designation at any time if there is 

good cause for doing so, including a challenge to the designation of a deposition transcript or any 

portions thereof. Any motion brought pursuant to this provision must be accompanied by a 

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competent declaration affirming that the movant has complied with the meet and confer 

requirements imposed by the preceding paragraph.

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating 

Party. Frivolous challenges, and those made for an improper purpose (e.g., to harass or impose 

unnecessary expenses and burdens on other parties) may expose the Challenging Party to sanctions. 

Unless the Designating Party has waived the confidentiality designation by failing to file a motion to 

retain confidentiality as described above, all parties shall continue to afford the material in question 

the level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s designation until the court 

rules on the challenge.

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is disclosed or 

produced by another Party or by a Non-Party in connection with this case only for prosecuting, 

defending, or attempting to settle this litigation. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to 

the categories of persons and under the conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has 

been terminated, a Receiving Party must comply with the provisions of section 13 below (FINAL 

DISPOSITION).

Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location and in a 

secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order.

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by 

the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any 

information or item designated “CONFIDENTIAL” only to:

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel in this action, provided that the employees of 

said Outside Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

litigation have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as 

Exhibit A;

(b) the officers, directors, partners, principals, independent contractors, and employees 

(including House Counsel) (including former officers, directors, partners, principals, independent 

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contractors, and employees) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for 

this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement 

to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(d) the court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and 

Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 

signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is reasonably 

necessary and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A), 

unless otherwise agreed by the Designating Party or ordered by the court. Pages of transcribed 

deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal Protected Material must be separately 

bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to anyone except as permitted under this 

Stipulated Protective Order.

(g) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or 

other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information and who have signed the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A).

7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” 

Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the 

Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only to:

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel in this action, provided that the employees of 

said Outside Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this 

litigation have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” that is attached hereto as 

Exhibit A;

(b) the Receiving Party’s House Counsel to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for 

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this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(c) Experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is 

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement 

to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(d) the court and its personnel;

(e) court reporters and their staff, professional jury or trial consultants, mock jurors, and 

Professional Vendors to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have 

signed the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A);

(f) the author or recipient of a document containing the information or a custodian or 

other person who otherwise possessed or knew the information and who have signed the 

“Acknowledgment and Agreement to Be Bound” (Exhibit A).

(g) Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions that reveal

Protected Material must be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed to 

anyone except as permitted under this Stipulated Protective Order.

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER 

LITIGATION 

If a Party is served with a subpoena or a court order issued in other litigation that compels 

disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY 

CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” that Party must: 

(a) promptly notify in writing the Designating Party. Such notification shall include a 

copy of the subpoena or court order; 

(b) promptly notify in writing the party who caused the subpoena or order to issue in the 

other litigation that some or all of the material covered by the subpoena or order is subject to this 

Protective Order. Such notification shall include a copy of this Stipulated Protective Order; and 

(c) cooperate with respect to all reasonable procedures sought to be pursued by the 

Designating Party whose Protected Material may be affected.

If the Designating Party timely seeks a protective order, the Party served with the subpoena 

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or court order shall not produce any information designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” or 

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” before a determination by the court 

from which the subpoena or order issued, unless the Party has obtained the Designating Party’s 

permission. The Designating Party shall bear the burden and expense of seeking protection in that 

court of its confidential material – and nothing in these provisions should be construed as 

authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in this action to disobey a lawful directive from 

another court.

9. A NON-PARTY’S PROTECTED MATERIAL SOUGHT TO BE PRODUCED IN THIS 

LITIGATION

(a) The terms of this Order are applicable to information produced by a Non-Party in this 

action and designated as “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL - ATTORNEYS’ 

EYES ONLY.” Such information produced by Non-Parties in connection with this litigation is 

protected by the remedies and relief provided by this Order. Nothing in these provisions should be 

construed as prohibiting a Non-Party from seeking additional protections. 

(b) In the event that a Party is required, by a valid discovery request, to produce a NonParty’s confidential information in its possession, and the Party is subject to an agreement with the 

Non-Party not to produce the Non-Party’s confidential information, then the Party shall: 

(1) promptly notify in writing the Requesting Party and the Non-Party that some or 

all of the information requested is subject to a confidentiality agreement with a Non-Party;

(2) promptly provide the Non-Party with a copy of the Stipulated Protective Order in 

this litigation, the relevant discovery request(s), and a reasonably specific description of the 

information requested; and 

(3) make the information requested available for inspection by the Non-Party. 

(c) If the Non-Party fails to object or seek a protective order from this court within 14 

days of receiving the notice and accompanying information, the Receiving Party may produce the 

Non-Party’s confidential information responsive to the discovery request. If the Non-Party timely 

seeks a protective order, the Receiving Party shall not produce any information in its possession or 

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control that is subject to the confidentiality agreement with the Non-Party before a determination by 

the court. Absent a court order to the contrary, the Non-Party shall bear the burden and expense of 

seeking protection in this court of its Protected Material.

10. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected 

Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Stipulated Protective Order, 

the Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized 

disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all unauthorized copies of the Protected Material, (c) 

inform the person or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this 

Order, and (d) request such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and Agreement to 

Be Bound” that is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

11. INADVERTENT PRODUCTION OF PRIVILEGED OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED 

MATERIAL

The production of privileged or work-product protected documents, ESI or information, whether 

inadvertent or otherwise, is not a waiver of the privilege or protection from discovery in this case or 

in any other federal or state proceeding. This Order shall be interpreted to provide the maximum 

protection allowed by Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d). Nothing contained herein is intended to or 

shall serve to limit a Party’s right to conduct a review of documents, ESI or information (including 

metadata) for relevance, responsiveness and/or segregation of privileged and/or protected 

information before production. A Producing Party which seeks the return of documents under this 

section may request the return of documents which should have been withheld on the basis of the 

attorney-client and/or work product protection. Upon receipt of such a request for return, the 

Receiving Party must immediately destroy the documents including all information contained in the 

documents that has been incorporated into notes, summaries, communications or other work product 

and confirm within three (3) business days that the destruction is complete. Should the Receiving 

Party disagree with the assertion of privilege, it may move to compel production of the documents 

within fourteen (14) days. Further, any Party who receives a privileged or work-product protected 

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document, ESI or information and knows or reasonably should know that the document, ESI or 

information was inadvertently produced shall promptly notify the Producing Party.

12. MISCELLANEOUS

12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person to seek 

its modification by the court in the future.

12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. By stipulating to the entry of this Protective Order 

no Party waives any right it otherwise would have to object to disclosing or producing any 

information or item on any ground not addressed in this Stipulated Protective Order. Similarly, no 

Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of any of the material covered by 

this Protective Order.

12.3 Filing Protected Material. Without written permission from the Designating Party or a 

court order secured after appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may not file in the 

public record in this action any Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected 

Material must comply with Civil Local Rule 79-5. Protected Material may only be filed under seal 

pursuant to a court order authorizing the sealing of the specific Protected Material at issue. Pursuant 

to Civil Local Rule 79-5, a sealing order will issue only upon a request establishing that the 

Protected Material at issue is privileged, protectable as a trade secret, or otherwise entitled to 

protection under the law. If a Receiving Party's request to file Protected Material under seal pursuant 

to Civil Local Rule 79-5(d) is denied by the court, then the Receiving Party may file the information 

in the public record pursuant to Civil Local Rule 79-5(e) unless otherwise instructed by the court.

13. FINAL DISPOSITION

Within 60 days after the final disposition of this action, as defined in paragraph 4, each 

Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the Producing Party or destroy such material. 

As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations, 

summaries, and any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Whether 

the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the Receiving Party must submit a written 

certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same person or entity, to the Designating Party) 

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by the 60 day deadline that (1) identifies (by category, where appropriate) all the Protected Material 

that was returned or destroyed and (2) affirms that the Receiving Party has not retained any copies, 

abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other format reproducing or capturing any of the Protected 

Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are entitled to retain an archival copy of all 

pleadings, motion papers, trial, deposition, and hearing transcripts, legal memoranda, 

correspondence, deposition and trial exhibits, expert reports, attorney work product, and consultant 

and expert work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. Any such archival copies 

that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as set forth in 

Section 4 (DURATION).

IT IS SO STIPULATED, THROUGH COUNSEL OF RECORD.

Respectfully submitted,

Dated: November 3, 2016 By: /s/ Jahan C. Sagafi_____________

Jahan C. Sagafi

Jahan C. Sagafi (Cal. Bar No. 227887)

Katrina L. Eiland (Cal. Bar No. 275701)

Julia Rabinovich (Cal. Bar No. 290730)

OUTTEN & GOLDEN LLP

One Embarcadero Center, 38th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111

Telephone: (415) 638-8800

Facsimile: (415) 638-8810

E-mail: jsagafi@outtengolden.com

E-mail: keiland@outtengolden.com

E-mail: jrabinovich@outtengolden.com

Adam T. Klein

OUTTEN & GOLDEN LLP

3 Park Avenue, 29th Floor

New York, NY 10016

Telephone: (212) 245-1000

Facsimile: (646) 509-2060

E-mail: atk@outtengolden.com

Daniel Kohrman

Laurie McCann

Dara Smith

AARP FOUNDATION LITIGATION

601 E. Street, N.W.

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Washington, D.C. 20049

Telephone: (202) 434-2060

Facsimile: (202) 434-2082

E-mail: dkohrman@aarp.org

E-mail: lmccann@aarp.org

E-mail: dsmith@aarp.org

Jennifer L. Liu (Cal. Bar No. 279370)

THE LIU LAW FIRM, P.C.

1170 Market Street, Suite 700

San Francisco, CA 94102

Telephone: (415) 896-4260

Facsimile: (415) 231-0011

E-mail: jliu@liulawpc.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Proposed Class and 

Collective Members

Dated: November 3, 2016 By: ___/s/ Emily Nicklin______________

Michael P. Esser (SBN 268634)

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP

555 California Street

San Francisco, CA 94104

Telephone: (415) 439-1400

Facsimile: (415) 439-1500

EMAIL: michael.esser@kirkland.com

Emily Nicklin

Gabor Balassa

Christina Briesacher

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP

300 N. LaSalle

Chicago, IL 60654

Telephone: (312) 862-2400

Facsimile: (312) 862-2200

Email: emily.nicklin@kirkland.com

gabor.balassa@kirkland.com

christina.briesacher@kirkland.com

Counsel for Defendant PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP.

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PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: ________________________ _____________________________________

 The Honorable Jon S. Tigar

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

ATTESTATION PURSUANT TO CIVIL L.R. 5-1(i)(3)

I, Emily Nicklin, am the ECF User whose ID and password are being used to file this document. I 

hereby attest that concurrence in the filing of this document has been obtained from the signatories. 

Dated: November 3, 2016 By: ___/s/ Emily Nicklin______________

 Emily Nicklin

November 7, 2016

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EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, _____________________________ [print or type full name], of _________________ [print or 

type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and understand the 

Stipulated Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the Northern 

District of California in the case of Rabin v. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Case No. 16-cv-02276-

JST. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order and 

I understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and 

punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any 

information or item that is subject to this Stipulated Protective Order to any person or entity except 

in strict compliance with the provisions of this Order.

I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Northern 

District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, even 

if such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action.

Date: ______________________________________

City and State where sworn and signed: _________________________________

Printed name: _______________________________

Signature: __________________________________

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