JOINT STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER TO CONTINUE DISCOVERY AND TRIAL DATE (Doc. 19)

JENNIFER L. THURSTON, Magistrate Judge.

Pursuant to Local Rules 143 and 144, Plaintiff Kenneth Lawrence ("Plaintiff") and Defendant Schlumberger Technology Corporation ("Defendant"), by and through their attorneys of record, submit this joint stipulation:

WHEREAS, on March 31, 2015, the Court granted the request of counsel to extend the discovery pertaining to non-experts to June 10, 2015, and expert discovery to August 26, 2015;

WHEREAS, Plaintiff noticed a 30(b)(6) deposition out of state for which Defendant requires additional time to identify the Person Most Knowledgeable as to the specific topics, which are focused on a particular time frame, and thereafter for the parties to identify mutually agreeable dates for the deposition;

WHEREAS, the Parties are in the process of meeting and conferring about supplemental responses to interrogatories served on Defendant on February 24, 2015, and Defendant intends to provide supplemental responses to interrogatories on or before May 18, 2015 so the Parties can resolve any disputes informally;

WHEREAS, to avoid unnecessarily expending the parties' and judicial resources, the Parties to seek to push back the deadline by which Defendant must file a motion for summary judgment and for which the motion must be heard;

WHEREAS, the extension will permit the Parties time to conduct this additional discovery and thereafter evaluate the prospects for settlement and potentially schedule a settlement conference with a Magistrate Judge;

THEREFORE, IT IS STIPULATED by the parties and respectfully requested that the Court make the following changes to the Court's calendar:

1. Non-expert discovery cut-off shall be continued from June 10, 2015 to July 17, 2015;

2. The Parties shall disclose all expert witnesses, in writing, on or before August 17, 2015 and to disclose all rebuttal experts on or before September 14, 2015;

3. Expert discovery cut-off shall be continued from August 26, 2015 to October 12, 2015;

2. The deadline for Parties to bring dispositive motions shall be continued from May 19, 2015 to July 28, 2015;

3. The deadline for dispositive motions to be heard shall be continued from June 30, 2015 to September 8, 2015;

4. The trial shall be continued from September 21, 2015 to November 16, 2015;

IT IS SO STIPULATED,

ORDER

Based upon the foregoing, the Court ORDERS the case schedule amended as follows:

IT IS SO ORDERED.