Christopher King

Practice Areas

E-Discovery & Information Governance

Career

CAREER

Christopher Q. King, Partner at Redgrave LLP, is recognized as a leader in information law and has devoted his practice to discovery, eDiscovery, and information governance. He serves as the lead attorney for several of the Firm’s key clients, advising on their eDiscovery and information governance needs. Chris oversees the development of discovery strategy in complex litigation and investigation matters and has briefed and argued eDiscovery motions in dozens of federal and state court cases.

Chris deeply understands the connection between information governance and eDiscovery and works with clients to develop holistic solutions that consider both practices. By building a solid foundation of information governance policies and procedures, organizations improve efficiencies, reduce risk, and put themselves in a better position to strategically handle eDiscovery issues. Robust information governance practices can provide a roadmap to how and where data is stored, streamlining time and resources during early case assessment. Chris also shows clients how eDiscovery approaches and outcomes can influence and reinforce information governance, including standardizing legal hold policies, investing in approaches and tools for preservation and collection, and being diligent about data minimization and defensible disposition.

In his information governance matters, Chris plays a pivotal role in counseling clients on a broad range of information governance issues, including leading large-scale assessments of existing information governance and eDiscovery processes and programs. He advises clients on defensible disposition projects, including system and hardware decommissioning and physical record remediation, and counsels on the defensibility of large-scale data migrations and conversions. Chris helps clients develop data retention, management, and disposition protocols, customized litigation hold processes, bring your own device (BYOD) policies, defensible employee and technology onboarding and offboarding processes, network use policies, and create and update record management policies and schedules.

In his eDiscovery matters, Chris leverages his extensive background litigating class actions, multidistrict litigation, and other types of complex litigation to identify, develop, and execute practical eDiscovery approaches that support the merits of a case. He has managed all stages of the discovery process, from document production to briefing and arguing matters in court, and has represented clients in the insurance, banking, securities, manufacturing, retail, technology, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, energy, and healthcare sectors. Chris regularly develops preservation plans, negotiates electronically stored information (“ESI”) protocols, and prepares and defends fact and corporate representative witnesses with respect to discovery-related issues. He has also acted as a special master and discovery neutral in contentious litigation matters and assisted with expert witness testimony. Whether in court, writing briefs, or negotiating on behalf of a client, Chris prides himself on being a hands-on attorney, recognizing the strong link between eDiscovery and litigation strategy.

Chambers USA and Chambers Global recognize Chris as a leading eDiscovery and information governance lawyer. He is also recognized by Who’s Who Legal for Litigation: eDiscovery Lawyers. He is a sought-after speaker, panelist, and presenter, participating at The Sedona Conference®, EDI Leadership Summit, and the Georgetown Advanced E-Discovery Institute as an authority on eDiscovery and information governance.

Before joining Redgrave LLP, Chris was a Partner at Dentons, where he founded and led the eDiscovery and Information Governance practice for the U.S. region. Chris was also clerk to Robert Murphy, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of Maryland. Chris is admitted to practice in Illinois, before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third and Seventh Circuits, and in the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois, and the Eastern District of Michigan.

Professional Memberships

Featured Professional Memberships:

• Member, The Sedona Conference®, Working Group 1 on Electronic Document Retention and Production

• Member, The Sedona Conference®, Working Group 11 on Data Security and Privacy Liability

• Co-chair of Steering Committee, Seventh Circuit Council on eDiscovery and Digital Information (formerly Seventh Circuit Electronic Discovery Pilot Program)

• Member, International Association of Privacy Professionals (“IAPP”)

Publications

Selected Publications

• “Microsoft And Snap Incorporate ChatGPT Into New Products” (Redgrave LLP, March 2023) (co-author: Kevin Reiss)

• “ChatGPT For Business Use” (Redgrave LLP, February 2023) (co-author: Amanda Moeller)

• “Restructuring Planning: Information Governance – Top Ten List” (Redgrave LLP, May 2020) (co-author: Charles Ragan)

• “INSIGHT: Special Masters Can Help Tame Court Backlogs After Covid-19” Bloomberg Law, April 2020 (co-authors: Hon. Nan R. Nolan (ret.) and Jonathan M. Redgrave)

• “Claims Arising From Market Volatility” (Practising Law Institute, Securities Arbitration, 1998)

• “Pleadings, Motions, and Class Certification” (Illinois State Bar Association Class Actions Coursebook) (1998)

• “Claims for Failure to Liquidate (Margin Violations) and Wrongful Liquidation” (Practising Law Institute, Securities Arbitration) (1998)

• “A Checklist for the Compliance Office of In-House Counsel Managing Customer-Broker Arbitration and Litigation” (Practising Law Institute, Securities Arbitration) (1997)

Recent Speaking Engagements

• Panelist, “JeopTARdy,” Annual National Institute on Class Actions 2023 (October 2023)

• Panelist, “The What, Why, When, Who, Where and How of Defensible Disposition,” ARMA 2023 Annual Spring Conference (April 2023)

• Panelist, “Ethics of Virtual or Hybrid Practice,” The Sedona Conference Institute: Pre-Trial Practice in a Post-Pandemic World (May 2022)

• Panelist, “JEOPTARDY,” ABA 25th Annual National Institute on Class Actions 2022 (April 2022)

• Panelist, “Collecting & Processing Ephemeral Data,” Relativity Fest 2020 (Virtual, October 2020)

• Panelist, “Defensible Disposition: You Can Do it ... And It’s Worth It,” Redgrave LLP Webinar (March 14, 2019)

• Presenter, “Defensible Disposition Toolkit: Keys to Designing a Successful Plan,” 27th Annual MER Conference (Chicago, Illinois, May 2019)

• Panelist, “Collecting & Processing Ephemeral Data,” 27th Annual MER Conference (Chicago, Illinois, May 2019)

• Co-Moderator, “Update on Mandatory Initial Discovery Pilot Program (‘MIDP’), Northern District of Illinois,” Sandpiper Partners LLC Innovation in E-Discovery Conference (Chicago, Illinois, February 2019)

• Panelist, “Data Protection, GDPR, and Privacy – What’s Next,” Sandpiper Partners LLC Innovation in E-Discovery Conference (Chicago, Illinois. February 2019)

• Panelist, “Strategies to Control the Cost of Litigation and Investigations,” Sandpiper Partners LLC Innovation in E-Discovery Conference (Chicago, Illinois, February 2019)

• Presenter, “Defensible Disposition: The What, Why, When, and Who,” ARMA International Triangle Spring 2018 Educational Seminar (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, April 2018)

• Panelist, “Update on Mandatory Initial Discovery Pilot Program (“MIDPP”), Northern District of Illinois and a Look at the Latest Seventh Circuit Pilot Program Projects,” Sandpiper Partners LLC Fifth Annual Innovation in E-Discovery Conference 2018 (Chicago, Illinois, February 2018)

• Co-Moderator, “The Rules Amendments: Emerging Hot Spots After Two Years of Practice Including Case Study on Sanctions,” Sandpiper Partners LLC Fifth Annual Innovation in E-Discovery Conference 2018 (Chicago, Illinois, February 2018)

Work Highlights

• Providing discovery neutral services to assist parties in resolving certain discovery disputes, including producing over a dozen reports and recommendations on a variety of discovery and privilege issues.

• Representing a large pharmaceutical corporation concerning certain discovery issues in Opioid-related matters in federal and state court litigation

• Serving as a discovery neutral for discovery issues in a litigation matter in circuit court to streamline proceedings and make recommendations, allowing for the resolution of pending issues and motions.

• Serving as discovery counsel for the debtor, an energy industry provider of engineering, construction, and installation services, in a restructuring matter valuing $9.2 billion in prepetition debt.

• Serving as discovery counsel in high-stakes healthcare antitrust and alleged fraudulent billing litigation matters.

• Preparing and defended fact and corporate representative witnesses with respect to discovery-related issues.

• Developing customized litigation hold processes.

• Advising on defensible disposition projects, including system and hardware decommissioning and physical record remediation.

• Advising on the defensibility of large-scale data migrations and conversions.

• Developing preservation plans for corporations facing discovery litigation and investigations.

Industry Sector Expertise

SPECIAL DISCOVERY MASTER APPOINTMENTS

• In re Riddell Brand Football Helmets Litigation (Cir. Ct. Cook County, Illinois) (2019)

Special Master for discovery matters

Education