Erica Zolner

Work Highlights

• Representing a large property and casual insurer in multiple matters and overseeing coordination on complex discovery issues, including developing defensible discovery strategy, leading preparation of briefs, handling witness deposition preparations, and managing expert declarations.

• Serving as discovery counsel in a major antitrust class action suit, ensuring all aspects of litigation are aligned with merits counsel and overseeing continuing provider litigation and administrative services litigation outside of sub-settlement.

• Providing ongoing eDiscovery support and strategic guidance to a large manufacturing client concerning complex litigation involving hundreds of lawsuits and coordination with multiple counsel in various jurisdictions.

• Acting as national discovery counsel on product liability and public enforcement matters concerning an FDA-regulated company.

• Developing strategies for clients undergoing system migrations to ensure efficient and effective transitions to new platforms.

• Consulting with a pharmaceutical company focused on developing a customizable template of electronically stored information (ESI) protocols.

Practice Areas

E-Discovery & Information Governance

Career

Erica Zolner is an accomplished litigator with over two decades of experience focusing on high-stakes business litigation and class action matters. A trusted advisor, she provides proactive and strategic legal counsel in eDiscovery and information law matters and advises clients on the development and execution of defensible discovery processes crucial for navigating contentious, high-stakes litigation.

With a proven track record in handling complex, “bet the company” business litigation and class action matters, Erica’s career has spanned a variety of practice areas, including antitrust, product liability, trade secrets, mass tort, and healthcare insurance matters. She has often served as lead counsel in jury and bench trials in both federal and state courts, and her trial work includes delivering compelling opening statements, skillfully handling witness examinations, defending expert witnesses, and presenting trial motions. Erica oversees case strategy and all aspects of discovery coordination and trial preparation, including preparing, briefing, and arguing Motions to Dismiss and Motions for Summary Judgment, preparing and defending corporate representatives for testimony in connection with 30(b)(6) depositions, and supervising the identification, collection, review, and production of electronically stored information (ESI).

Erica is skilled at providing strategic litigation counseling and advises clients on practical discovery and information governance strategies. Her deep experience developing efficient eDiscovery and information governance solutions related to records retention and challenges posed by emerging technologies allows her to craft targeted strategies that address clients’ specific and complex business needs and information technology environments.

Before joining Redgrave LLP, Erica worked at Kirkland & Ellis for 19 years, the last 12 years as a partner at the firm.

Professional Memberships

• Member, National Association for Women Lawyers (NAWL); Member, NAWL Annual Meeting Leadership Committee

• Member, Defense Research Institute (DRI)

• Member, Women in eDiscovery

• Vice President, Board of Directors, Housing Opportunities for Women (HOW)

• Member, Board of Directors, Coalition of Women’s Initiatives in Law (2013-2020)

Publications

Recent Publications

• “Candid Talk Women” (NAWLTalks Podcast, October 2022) (Interviewed by Bernadett Catalana)

• “Litigation, Technology, and Ethics: The Importance of Technological Competence” (Thomas Reuters, January 2022) (co-author with Benjamin Redgrave)

Recent Speaking Engagements

• Panelist, “The Hidden Risks (and Costs) of Over-Retention: Key Data Minimization Processes to Implement Now,” TechGC Chicago Fireside Dinner (November 2023)

• Panelist, “Rapid Fire – How to Protect Corporate Privilege: Five Best Practices You Can Implement Now,” DRI Annual Conference Showcase Theater (October 2023)

• Co-Moderator, “Data: Data Minimization Requirements and Avoiding the Risks of Over-Retention of Personal Information,” 2023 TechGC Fullstack GC Conference (May 2023)

• Panelist, “What You Don’t See Can (And Probably Will) Hurt You: Avoiding Inadvertent Disclosures Of Hidden Data,” Association of Legal Administrators 2022 Virtual Conference (November 2022)

Education