In re Convergent Technologies Second Half 1984 Securities Litigation

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

WAYNE D. BRAZIL, United States Magistrate.

In this opinion the court addresses four principal issues: (1) does the fact that a statement taken from a non-party witness is purely factual, or is in the form of a verbatim transcription of her words, disqualify that statement from protection under the work product doctrine? (2) should the court quash a subpoena by which defendants attempt to secure a copy of an adopted statement directly from the non-party who gave the statement to plaintiffs’ counsel? (3) by asking certain non-party witnesses to review, correct and adopt…