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`Case 5:18-md-02834-BLF Document 693-2 Filed 06/15/21 Page 1 of 2
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`MICHAEL A. SHERMAN (SBN 94783)
`masherman@stubbsalderton.com
`JEFFREY F. GERSH (SBN 87124)
`jgersh@stubbsalderton.com
`WESLEY W. MONROE (SBN 149211)
`wmonroe@stubbsalderton.com
`VIVIANA BOERO HEDRICK (SBN 239359)
`vhedrick@stubbsalderton.com
`STUBBS ALDERTON & MARKILES, LLP
`15260 Ventura Blvd., 20th Floor
`Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
`Telephone:
`(818) 444-4500
`Facsimile:
`(818) 444-4520
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`Attorneys for PERSONALWEB
`TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
`(Prior to Post Judgment Debtor
`Collection Proceedings)
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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
`SAN JOSE DIVISION
`CASE NO.: 5:18-md-02834-BLF
`IN RE PERSONAL WEB TECHNOLOGIES,
`LLC, ET., AL., PATENT LITIGATION
`Case No.: 5:18-cv-00767-BLF
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`Case No.: 5:18-cv-05619-BLF
`DECLARATION OF MICHAEL A.
`SHERMAN IN SUPPORT OF REPLY TO
`MOTION OF STUBBS ALDERTON &
`MARKILES AND THEODORE (“TED”)
`MECEIKO TO WITHDRAW AS
`COUNSEL FOR PERSONALWEB
`TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
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`AMAZON.COM, INC. and AMAZON WEB
`SERVICE, INC.,
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` Plaintiffs,
`v.
`PERSONALWEB TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, et
`al.,
` Defendants.
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`PERSONALWEB TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, et
`al.,
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`v.
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`TWITCH INTERACTIVE, INC.,
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`Plaintiffs,
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`Defendant.
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`DECL.OF M. SHERMAN IN SUPPORT OF REPLY TO MOTION
`TO WITHDRAW AS COUNSEL FOR PERSONALWEB
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`CASE NO: 5:18-md-02834-BLF
`CASE NO: 5:18-cv-00767-BLF
`CASE NO.: 5:18-cv-05619-BLF
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`Case 5:18-md-02834-BLF Document 693-2 Filed 06/15/21 Page 2 of 2
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`I am a member of the bar of the State of California and am admitted to practice
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`before the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. I am a partner at
`Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP (“SAM”). The facts herein are, unless otherwise stated, based
`upon personal knowledge, and if called upon to do so, I could, and would testify to their truth
`under oath. I submit this declaration in support of SAM’s Reply in support of its Motion to
`Withdraw as Counsel for PersonalWeb Technologies, LLC (the “Motion”).
`I have read the opposition papers filed by Amazon.com, Inc., Amazon Web Services,
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`Inc. and Twitch Interactive, Inc. to the Motion (“Opposition”). As the lead counsel responsible
`for the prosecution of my client PersonalWeb’s claims in the underlying litigation, I take the
`aspersions and innuendo contained in the Opposition quite seriously.
`I have been practicing as a California-licensed attorney continuously, since 1980.
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`Throughout my career I have handled many highly contentious and high-stakes matters, in the
`last 20+ years most of them in a first-chair capacity. I have never been subject to Court
`discipline or sanctions, and neither have any of the law firms I have practiced with as a result of
`any conduct of mine, or the litigation teams I have been a member of.
`4. The decision of Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP (“SAM”) to seek to be relieved as
`counsel of record upon receipt of Mr. Richards’ e-mail of late April, was mine. The decision that
`SAM should withdraw (and following the colloquy at the May 13, Case Management
`Conference) to attempt to substitute PersonalWeb in pro per, was mine. In no way, shape or
`form did I make these decisions to withdraw for any of the motives ascribed to SAM in the
`Opposition including to in any way prejudice Amazon or to coordinate in any fashion with any
`receivership, and I resent the contrary assertions/implications.
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`Executed this 15th day of June 2021, in San Anselmo, California.
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`By: /s/ Michael A. Sherman
`Michael A. Sherman
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`DECL.OF M. SHERMAN IN SUPPORT OF REPLY TO MOTION
`TO WITHDRAW AS COUNSEL FOR PERSONALWEB
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`CASE NO: 5:18-MD-02834-BLF
`CASE NO: 5:18-CV-00767-BLF
`CASE NO.: 5:18-CV-05619-BLF
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