Tarantino

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division ARTHUR J. GALLAGHER & CO., Case No. 20-cv-05505-EMC (LB)

Plaintiff,

DISCOVERY ORDER

v. Re: ECF No. 112 DON TARANTINO, et al., Defendants. 16 The plaintiff Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. is an insurance broker that sued four of its former employees after they resigned and began working for a competitor, Alliant Insurance Services. Alliant was a defendant initially but the trial judge dismissed all claims against it.1 As part of its onboarding process, Alliant hired a vendor to forensically examine the defendants’ phones and emails (a process it calls remediation). The vendor it used was Blackstone Discovery, now called UnitedLex. The parties dispute whether Gallagher is entitled to certain emails that UnitedLex asserts are protected by the attorney-client privilege.2 The court can decide the issue without oral argument. Civ. L. R. 7-1(b). 25 26 27 1 Order – ECF No. 32 at 1, 26–27. Citations refer to material in…