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1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 CISCO SYSTEMS, INC., et al., Case No. 18-cv-07602-YGR (TSH)

8 Plaintiffs,

DISCOVERY ORDER

9 v. Re: Dkt. No. 117 10 ZAHID HASSAN SHEIKH, et al., 11 Defendants.

12 13 We’re here on a dispute about the application of the attorney-client privilege to 14 conversations between the deponent, Cisco’s Kenny Carter, and his manager, Chuck Williams, 15 about ADSI. Carter and Williams are non-lawyers.1 The parties’ joint discovery letter brief, ECF 16 No. 117, discusses the attorney-client privilege, but it does not discuss the work product doctrine. 17 So, although Cisco also objected based on work product during the deposition, the only issue that 18 has been briefed is the attorney-client privilege, and the Court limits its consideration to that. 19 There are situations where communications between non-lawyers are privileged. “The 20 attorney-client privilege may attach to communications between nonlegal employees where: (1) 21 the employees discuss or transmit legal advice given by counsel;…