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Gareth represents clients in complex, high-profile litigation matters, and over the course of his career, he has made hundreds of court appearances, drafted thousands of briefs, taken and defended countless depositions, and counseled clients in significant and contentious disputes. Gareth’s experience spans a broad range of Information Law issues.
Gareth leverages his extensive knowledge and experience to steer complex litigation across various industries, including manufacturing, transportation, finance, healthcare, technology, and energy. His work as discovery counsel includes overseeing the investigation, preservation, and collection of relevant electronically stored information (ESI), formulating technology-assisted review strategies, defending review and production processes in court proceedings, and challenging the adequacy of the opposing party’s processes.
Gareth also leads teams in tackling complex privilege and confidentiality matters and develops strategic approaches to asserting and defending privilege claims and sealing confidential information, including trade secrets and other proprietary and sensitive information.
Gareth also advises clients on scoping legal holds and evaluates and implements legal hold technology strategies, develops approaches for expedited and cost-effective search and review of large document populations, and finds key facts early in litigation and investigations using technology assisted review (TAR) and other methodologies. Gareth also advises clients on defensible disposition, data remediation, and records retention policies and practices.
Gareth is a frequently published author and speaker on various eDiscovery and information governance topics. He has participated in drafting The Sedona Conference® publications, including serving as the co-lead of the drafting team for the in-process Sedona Conference Commentary on Discovery of Collaboration Applications. Chambers USA has recognized him as a leading lawyer in the field of E-Discovery and Information Governance for several years, and he is recognized by Who’s Who Legal: Litigation in the area of eDiscovery.
Prior to joining Redgrave, Gareth was a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP for 20 years and a lawyer with the firm for 28 years. He was a founder and chair of the firm’s eDiscovery and Information Law Practice Group and the lead author and editor of the firm’s eDiscovery Year-End and Mid-Year Reports. Gareth also served as a law clerk to the Hon. Gordon Thompson, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
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“[Gareth] is very sensitive to client concerns about risk and cost benefit.”Chambers USA
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“[Gareth] is very knowledgeable, intelligent and pragmatic, he is able to get into the DNA of e-discovery, and when he says something, everybody listens.”Chambers USA
Gareth’s work experience includes:
- Serving as special discovery counsel for a large healthcare company in multiple high-stakes healthcare antitrust and pricing litigation matters involving large volumes of ESI and addressing an extensive number of privileged documents and complex confidentiality sealing issues
- Co-author of multiple federal circuit court and Supreme Court amicus briefs regarding attorney-client privilege and scope of discovery issues.
- Representing a major transportation company in a significant, complex, and high-stakes litigation involving large document volumes from complex data sources, involving ongoing matters in many global jurisdictions, multiple law firms, and vendors
- Working with a global automotive manufacturing company to provide ongoing guidance on eDiscovery, information governance, and privacy issues, including providing advice on the defensible disposition of information and scoping of legal holds related to multiple matters in various global jurisdictions
- Leading privilege logging and defense of privilege in multidistrict litigation and numerous state actions in litigation related to the marketing of newly developed products
- Serving as a lead team member in a restructuring matter where Redgrave acted as Discovery counsel for the debtor, an energy industry provider of engineering, construction, and installation services
- Serving as discovery counsel in highly contested, high-profile litigation in the gaming industry, which included developing significant ESI and TAR strategies
- Assisting a client in pursuing spoliation claims and taking depositions of the opposing parties’ key executives and experts in a healthcare fraud case in which his client obtained a $34 million jury verdict at trial.
- Overseeing electronic document discovery and discovery disputes in securities litigation involving numerous custodians on behalf of one of the world’s largest automobile
Education
- New York University School of Law, J.D. (1988)
- The University of California at Berkeley, B.A. (1983)
Bar Admissions
- California
Memberships
- Member and former Steering Committee Member, The Sedona Conference® Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1)
- Member, The Sedona Conference® Working Group on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure (WG6)
- Member, The Sedona Conference® Working Group on Data Security and Privacy Liability (WG11)
- Board Member and former Chair of the Board, Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society
Recognition
- Chambers USA, E-Discovery & Information Governance (USA - Nationwide) (Band 4: 2021–present)
- Chambers Global, E-Discovery & Information (Global) (Band 4: 2022-present)
- Who’s Who Legal, Thought Leader – Commercial Litigation – E-Discovery Lawyer