Litigation & Investigations

• Discovery coordination and management
• Discovery strategy (including validation assessments of existing strategy)
• Data and document preservation plans, including preservation and collection interviews
• Structured data investigation and data mapping
• Identifying privileged and confidential documents/communications 
• Legal hold assessments and management support
• Preparing responses to written discovery 
• Preparing and presenting/defending deposition witnesses, including corporate representatives testifying about discovery issues 
• Data analytics, search term/TAR strategy and execution
• Vendor selection and management
• Leading negotiations and conferrals with opposing parties and documenting same in formal correspondence and protocols
• Negotiating with litigation opponents, regulators, and investigators
• Handling all aspects of discovery motion practice, from briefing to hearings
• Cross-border discovery coordination
• Acting as expert witnesses, discovery neutrals, and special masters
• Managing document and privilege review
• Preparing and performing quality control on privilege logs
• Defending privilege through negotiations and motion practice
• Drafting and negotiating ESI Protocols and Protective Orders
• Protecting trade secrets and competitively sensitive information through confidentiality designations, redactions, and sealing
• Crisis response and remediation when clients are accused of not having fulfilled their discovery obligations
• Responding to motions for discovery-related sanctions

We have decades of experience working on some of the highest-profile and most complex “bet-the-company” discovery disputes.  We have handled, briefed, and argued sophisticated and complex discovery matters at the state and federal trial and appellate levels, including in the United States Supreme Court.  Our skill, knowledge, and experience have allowed us to help numerous clients successfully navigate risky and potentially cost-prohibitive discovery.  We have also helped clients meet significant discovery obligations under extremely tight deadlines, remediate alleged production deficiencies, avoid or mitigate sanctions (including the associated reputational and economic risks), and secure favorable agreements and orders on issues relating to privilege, confidentiality, proportionality, and the scope of discovery, among others. 

Ways we bring value include:

• We are litigators.  We provide companies with sophisticated and experienced litigators who help them navigate the risk and potentially prohibitive costs of discovery.  At Redgrave, we have an incomparable bench to handle discovery-related issues in litigation and investigations.
• We are technology leaders.  We have assembled an extraordinary breadth of legal, technical, and business talent that can tackle and understand the most challenging and nuanced technology issues in modern discovery across diverse data types and platforms.  Our team harnesses analytics, TAR, and AI to optimize results for our clients.  
• We take a holistic approach.  We employ a comprehensive litigation strategy.  Our lawyers and advisors merge the skills and knowledge needed to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and communication while minimizing costs, risks, and threats, all of which ultimately lead to better legal outcomes.  By asking strategic questions and looking at issues from multiple angles, we enhance discovery efficiency, enable compliance, and foster collaboration.
• We are trusted advisors.  As leaders in Information Law, we have decades of collective experience that allow us to implement practical, reasonable, consistent, and defensible approaches to providing advice for high-stakes litigation.  Our team members have helped create the principles that guide our courts today and continue to work to shape and define the boundaries of how information is governed.  Clients routinely turn to us because of our knowledge of the litigation process, our understanding of the rules and best practices governing discovery, and our ability to streamline discovery strategy for our clients, reducing costs and risks.
• We are team players.  We work collaboratively with Am Law 100 law firms in roles ranging from co-counsel to consulting and testifying as expert witnesses.  Our team takes on the nuanced and arduous task of discovery so that litigation teams can focus on the merits of the case.