(a) No later than the time for filing of the Joint Preliminary Report
and Discovery Plan pursuant to Local Rule 16.2, the parties shall meet and
confer to prepare a stipulated protective order to govern the production of
commercially or technologically sensitive information in the case.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision in a protective order limiting the
use of a document for purposes of a single lawsuit, the fact that an attorney
or law firm has had access to a document covered by a protective order in
one case shall not furnish a basis for disqualifying such lawyer in another
case.