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Monica has a background as a trial attorney and currently focuses her practice on providing advice and counsel on eDiscovery and information governance issues to clients in a wide array of industries, including automotive, transportation, financial services, defense contracting, and pharmaceutical.
Monica has represented and advised clients engaged in state and federal litigation and regulatory investigations in many areas of law, including antitrust and False Claims Act cases, and handles all stages of pre-trial litigation and discovery, including preparing, briefing, and arguing motions; preparing experts for deposition; and taking and defending depositions. Monica’s experience also includes successfully representing clients in multi-district litigation and navigating the unique challenges presented by these matters, including coordinating discovery across parties and implementing consistent strategies for productions, depositions, and review.
Monica has also counseled clients on developing and implementing eDiscovery best practices and provides information governance counsel to several Fortune 500 clients, including analyzing and updating policies regarding the generation, use, retention, and disposition of data.
Monica served on the Executive Council of the IP/IT Section of the Virginia Bar Association (2015 – 2019) and spearheaded the creation of an Electronically Stored Information (ESI) Subcommittee to address eDiscovery and high technology issues. She is also a speaker and writer on Information Law issues and teaches an eDiscovery course at William & Mary Law School in Virginia. Chambers USA recognizes Monica as a leading eDiscovery and information governance lawyer.
Before joining Redgrave, Monica was a partner at Williams Mullen, where she chaired the firm’s eDiscovery and Information Governance practice and participated as counsel in a private cause of action under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
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“[Monica]'s one of the best in the industry. She works well with clients and scopes litigation really appropriately - it's an area where it is too easy to have too big a focus - so she is very efficient.”Chambers USA
Monica’s work experience includes:
- Serving as the client lead attorney in the representation of a major transportation company in a significant, complex, and high-stakes litigation matter with an aggressive discovery schedule involving dozens of key custodians and a high volume of complex data sources, many proprietary, coupled with ongoing related matters in various jurisdictions, with multiple law firms and vendors
- Representing a global automotive manufacturing company in multiple lawsuits and internal matters for various business entities within the global organization arising from high-profile regulatory investigations, both domestic and international, including assisting with consent decree compliance obligations in civil, multi-district, and related domestic and international litigation
- Representing a large finance and insurance company in state and federal false claims act litigation where the allegations stretched back more than 15 years and leading a multi-firm drafting team that refuted allegations of contempt, spoliation, and other discovery misconduct
- Representing a major transportation company as lead counsel in Rule 26 meet and confer negotiations with government regulators and private plaintiffs’ counsel, significantly limiting the scope of eDiscovery and saving the client potentially millions in discovery costs
- Developing solutions for managing eDiscovery and data preservation in multi-billion-dollar global litigation, and leading negotiations that resulted in the acceptance of the solution by numerous opposing parties without resorting to Court intervention for a global automotive manufacturing company
- Assisting a large U.S. defense contractor with information governance challenges that arose after a lengthy government investigation
Education
- University of Virginia School of Law, J.D. (2000)
- The College of William and Mary, B.A. (1995)
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- New Jersey
- Virginia
Memberships
- Member, Science and Technology Section of the American Bar Association
- Member, International Association of Privacy Professionals
- Member, Women in eDiscovery
- Member, The Sedona Conference®
Recognition
- Chambers USA, E-Discovery & Information Governance (USA - Nationwide) (2024)
- Who’s Who Legal, Thought Leader – Commercial Litigation – E-Discovery Lawyer