Monica McCarroll

Work Highlights

• Serving as the client lead attorney in the representation of a major transportation company in a significant, complex, and high-stakes litigation matter involving a high volume of complex data sources, coupled with ongoing matters in various jurisdictions, multiple law firms, and vendors.

• Representing a global automotive company in several lawsuits and internal matters for various business entities, including assisting with consent decree compliance obligations in civil, multi-district, and related domestic and international litigation.

• Representing a client 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 a 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.

• Assisting a large U.S. defense contractor with information governance challenges that arose after a lengthy government investigation.

Practice Areas

E-Discovery & Information Governance

Career

Monica McCarroll, Partner at Redgrave LLP, leverages her extensive background as a trial attorney to help clients navigate challenging information law issues in complex litigation. She 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 works with clients to identify and lead legal and discovery strategies in high-stakes and bet-the-company litigation and develop and implement practical solutions to mitigate risk. She has represented and advised clients engaged in state and federal litigation and regulatory investigations regarding all aspects of discovery, from preservation through production. She has litigated matters in some of the most complex areas of law, including high-stakes antitrust and False Claims Act cases, and is skilled at handling all stages of pre-trial litigation and discovery, including preparing, briefing, and arguing motions, preparing experts for deposition, and taking and defending depositions. Monica works with clients to manage eDiscovery and data preservation needs and leverages her understanding of how technology influences discovery strategy to implement cost-effective solutions. Monica’s experience also includes successfully representing clients in multi-district litigation (“MDL”) 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 counseled clients on developing and implementing eDiscovery best practices designed to manage current litigation, position the client for potential future litigation, and allow for the consistent and cost-effective management of information law practices across global business footprints. She also routinely provides information governance counsel to several Fortune 500 clients, including analyzing and updating policies regarding the generation, use, retention, and disposition of data.

Professional Memberships

• Member, Science and Technology Section of the American Bar Association

• Member, International Association of Privacy Professionals

• Member, Women in eDiscovery

Publications

Publications

• “Act Now or Pay Later: The Case for Defensible Disposition of Data” Thomson Reuters Practical Law, December 2022 (co-authors: Diana Fasching, Charles Ragan, Benjamin Redgrave, Tara Emory, Michael Kearney)

• “Modern Attachments: Pointers Are Not the Problem When It Comes to Preservation” Legaltech News, September 2022 (co-authors: Staci Kaliner, Ben Barnes)

• “Learning from Trump and Bannon Discovery Strategies” Law 360, September 2022 (Mathea Bulander)

• “Let’s Start by Calling Them What They Are for Discovery: ‘Pointers’ Not ‘Modern Attachments’” Legaltech News, August 2022 (co-authors: Staci Kaliner Ben Barnes,

• “2020 Amendment to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(6) Echoes the Aspirations of the 2015 Amendments” (Redgrave LLP, January 2021) (co-author: Mathea Bulander)

• “Act Now or Pay Later: The Case for Defensible Disposition of Data” Thomson Reuters Practical Law, April 2015 (co-authors: Diana Fasching, Benjamin Joffe)

Speaking Engagements

• Co-Presenter, “2022 Lookback on Top eDiscovery Decisions and Trends,” Washington, D.C. and Richmond Chapters of Women in eDiscovery (January 2023)

• Presenter, “The Top Ten eDiscovery Cases of 2021,” Women in eDiscovery - D.C. Chapter 2021 Case Law Retrospective (January 2022)

Education