MEMORANDUM ORDER

SUE L. ROBINSON, District Judge.

At Wilmington this 24th day of January, 2017, having reviewed various pending motions and the papers filed in connection therewith, and having heard argument on the same;

IT IS ORDERED that plaintiffs' motion for entry of a scheduling order and protective order (D.I. 496) is granted in part and denied in part,1 as follows:

1. The court has lifted the stay in the above captioned litigation ("the Civil Action"). The question is how to proceed in light of the parallel proceedings in United States v. Wilmington Trust Corporation, David Gibson, Robert V.A. Harra, William North, and Kevyn Rakowski, Crim. No. 15-23-RGA (D. Del.) ("the Criminal Action," with the named defendants being designated as "the individual defendants"). The court is mindful that:2 (a) the Civil and Criminal Actions overlap, although the Civil Action is broader in scope; (b) plaintiffs have an interest in protecting the rights of the class, and resolution of the Civil Action has been delayed at least in part because of the stay; (c) the parallel proceedings impose a burden on the individual defendants, both in terms of resources and strategy;3 (d) the court's interest is directed to resolving disputes promptly, efficiently, and fairly; and (e) the public's interest is promoted by bringing to resolution this complex civil litigation, while balancing the interest the public has in the integrity of the criminal proceeding.

2. Balancing all of these interests, the court concludes that both the schedule and the protective order proposed by plaintiffs require some modification. The court will modify the schedule to complete fact and expert discovery in the Civil Action prior to trial in the Criminal Action; the summary judgment exercise and trial in the Civil Action will commence at the conclusion of trial in the Criminal Action. With respect to the protective order, all deposition testimony and written discovery responses in the Civil Action shall be promptly disclosed or made available to the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Delaware ("the USAO"), and can only be used "to impeach witnesses that may testify in the Criminal Action in accordance with the Federal Rules of Evidence." (D.I. 498, ex. B at 2) The protective order shall be modified to better balance the Fifth Amendment concerns of the individual defendants with the goal of encouraging meaningful discovery in the Civil Action, that is, the deposition testimony and written discovery responses related to the individual defendants shall not be disclosed to the USAO until the close of the government's case-in-chief in the Criminal Action.

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that:

1. All fact discovery shall be completed on or before June 1, 2017.

2. All expert discovery shall be completed on or before September 1, 2017.

3. All summary judgment motions and opening briefs shall be filed on January 31, 2018.

4. A pretrial conference shall be conducted on May 23, 2018 at 3:00 p.m.

5. Trial shall commence on June 18, 2018.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the proposed supplemental protective order (D.I. 498, ex. B) shall be modified to provide that the deposition testimony and written discovery responses of the individual defendants shall not be disclosed or otherwise made available to the USAO until the close of its case-in-chief in the Criminal Action.4