MICHAEL D. MARCUS’S MEDIATION MESSAGE NO. 77 WORK PRODUCT PROTECTION OF WITNESS STATEMENTS The topic of this Mediation Message, the application of the work product doctrine to attorney obtained witness statements and to the identification of those witnesses, could have been the subject of an Arbitration Insight, but is discussed here because knowledge, or lack thereof, of an opponent’s case is equally important to settling cases. Coito v. Superior Court (2012) 54 Cal.4th 480 holds,…