Karen Hourigan has over seventeen years of litigation experience, focusing on complex civil litigation and electronic discovery issues. Karen has been actively involved in all phases of complex civil litigation and has counseled clients regarding records and information management, litigation preparedness, and electronic discovery strategy and processes. She has also spoken at CLE programs on issues and solutions related to electronic discovery. 

 

Before joining Redgrave LLP, Karen was a Senior Advisor at Business Intelligence Associates where she assisted clients with all phases of electronic discovery in litigation and investigations from identification to disposition. She also worked as Counsel at Redgrave Daley Ragan & Wagner, LLP and as an Associate at Jones Day. She was a law clerk to Honorable Elizabeth D. Laporte, United States District Court for the Northern District of California and Honorable David Warner Hagen, United States District Court for the District of Nevada.

 

Karen is a member of the Sedona Conference’s Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production, and was a contributing editor to The Sedona Principles Addressing Electronic Document Production, Second Edition (June 2007).

 

Karen holds a J.D. (Georgetown University Law Center) and a B.A. (Emory University). She is admitted to practice in California and in the District of Columbia.