Redgrave LLP is a “market-leading national firm with a dedicated focus on the field of information law, encompassing e-discovery, information governance and all related concerns.” The Firm “boasts a deep bench of highly experienced attorneys, recognized for their thought leadership across the space.” Redgrave LLP is “retained by several major clients as national e-discovery counsel, assisting with the full range of data-and discovery-related issues on high-stakes litigation as well as providing expert advice on internal practices.” Sources describe the firm as “an impressive group” of “excellent practitioners.”
– Chambers USA
Discovery has long been recognized as the most expensive component of litigation and investigations, and the advent of eDiscovery in the last twenty years has presented substantial complexities that magnify the risks and costs involved. At the same time, the emergence of new technologies has offered opportunities to better manage the discovery process in order to better manage risks and costs.
If discovery is done poorly or with errors, the consequences can be monumental. From matter-ending sanctions for preservation failures to discovery misconduct resulting in evidentiary and monetary penalties, case law is littered with the failures of firms of all sizes and pedigrees in matters across all industries. A common thread to many of these adverse results is the improper delegation of discovery to inexperienced junior counsel or vendors. Beyond the external admonitions (and sanctions) from courts, the internal consequences can be worse: millions of dollars wasted, missed opportunities to better prosecute or defend claims, and unnecessary impacts on the business.
Redgrave LLP is the largest law firm nationwide that focuses specifically on discovery. Recognized for excellence in the fields of eDiscovery and Information Governance, we serve as national discovery counsel for many companies, working hand-in-hand with merits counsel to effectively and efficiently address discovery issues for the client. We work behind the scenes and on the front lines of representation in trial and appellate courts. We have the experience, knowledge, and resources to do discovery well and correctly, from start to finish.
Redgrave LLP handles the following aspects of litigation and investigations, bringing decades of strategic and practical experience to the table:
- Scoping and implementing legal holds and ensuring that our clients’ preservation duty is satisfied while avoiding costly and disruptive over-preservation
- Selecting and overseeing the work of eDiscovery vendors, ensuring they are cost-effective, that they have the necessary skills and technologies, and that they avoid actions that cause costs to balloon
- Determining and implementing the best search and review methodologies and technologies for the case, including the effective use of analytics and technology assisted review
- Overseeing and managing document reviews to ensure they are effective and efficient
- Defending against spoliation and other discovery sanctions disputes
- Protecting privilege, trade secrets, and privacy in a cost-effective manner, including using categorical privilege logs, artificial intelligence, and technology assisted review
- Taking and defending depositions regarding identification, retention, preservation, and discovery of electronically stored information from complex information systems
- Handling motion practice and appellate briefing in state and federal courts addressing discovery, privilege, trade secrets, and privacy-related issues
Redgrave LLP has counseled and assisted clients in a wide range of matters across multiple industries. This work includes:
- In high-stakes health care antitrust and alleged fraudulent billing litigation, we have handled eDiscovery, privilege, and confidentiality sealing issues. Our work has included briefing and arguing motions challenging privilege logs, leading meet and confers, correspondence and meetings with opposing counsel, and developing sampling procedures for structured data on health care and financial information systems.
- We have handled eDiscovery-related motion practice, meet-and-confers, and strategy as part of a multi-firm case team in ongoing Hurricane Katrina-related insurance litigation.
- We served as discovery counsel in insurance-related civil RICO litigation, providing strategic advice and briefing regarding the admissibility and use of key data sets at trial.
- We served as discovery counsel in a significant restructuring matter on behalf of the debtor, an energy industry provider of engineering, construction, and installation services, concerning $9.2 billion in prepetition debt.
- We handled appellate proceedings in state and federal courts in litigation alleging underpayment of insured hail-damage claims, including briefing and oral argument of a petition for Writ of Mandamus in the Texas Supreme Court that resulted in a ground-breaking eDiscovery decision regarding the role of proportionality and form of production in civil discovery.
- We advised and served a lead role in handling eDiscovery issues for the joint defense team in a multi-billion-dollar antitrust lawsuit against an association of health insurance companies. Our work included negotiating ESI protocols and handling issues related to protective orders, preservation, and production of structured and unstructured data.
- We served as eDiscovery liaison counsel for the plaintiff in trade secrets litigation involving drone technology. Redgrave handled all matters involving eDiscovery, including developing and negotiating the ESI protocol, retention of the eDiscovery service provider, advising regarding the preservation of ESI and legal hold issues, and handling numerous meet-and-confer conferences with opposing counsel.
- We have advised regarding document retention and preservation issues and served as discovery counsel for a global automobile manufacturing company in MDL litigation and related domestic and foreign litigation, facilitating compliance with relevant discovery orders, protocols, and a consent decree.
- We provide ongoing legal advice and recommendations to many major global companies regarding a wide variety of litigation preparedness and discovery issues.
Redgrave LLP is the premier law firm, nationally and globally, in this field. We are the only law firm to receive the highest ranking (Band 1) by Chambers USA in the area of E-Discovery & Information Governance – USA – Nationwide. Our professionals include recognized discovery leaders, such as Jonathan Redgrave, who has been named a “Star Individual” by Chambers & Partners for the better part of the last decade.
This unique team of litigators, technology professionals, and business process analysts has decades of experience working on a wide variety of complex litigation and governmental investigations. Our professionals include partners from AmLaw 100 firms and directors from the Big Four consulting firms and eDiscovery service providers. All in all, the firm offers an incomparable bench of highly experienced and knowledgeable professionals to handle eDiscovery-related issues in litigation and investigations.
We are also respected thought leaders in the area, and our attorneys include founders and leaders of The Sedona Conference™. Additionally, we are sophisticated litigators and professionals who have handled, briefed, and argued matters related to document discovery at the state and federal trial and appellate levels, including matters in the U.S. Supreme Court and multiple U.S. Courts of Appeal. From the highest-profile and most complex “bet-the-company” discovery disputes to the efficient execution of ordinary document reviews, we have done it all.