Christopher King

Practice Areas

E-Discovery & Information Governance

Career

Christopher Q. King, Partner at Redgrave LLP, is an established leader in the field of Information Law with a particular focus on eDiscovery and information governance issues. At Redgrave, 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. He also regularly advises clients on complex information governance issues, including developing policies and processes governing the retention and disposition of data and implementing legal holds.

Chris works with clients to develop holistic solutions that consider both information governance and eDiscovery. In his information governance matters, Chris counsels clients on a broad range of 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 also 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 record management policies and schedules.

In his eDiscovery matters, Chris develops and executes practical eDiscovery approaches at all stages of the discovery process, from document production to briefing and arguing matters in court. He 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 discovery neutral in contentious litigation matters and assisted with expert witness testimony.

Chris 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

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

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

Publications

Selected Publications

• “Microsoft And Snap Incorporate ChatGPT Into New Products” (Redgrave LLP Issue Analysis) (March 2023) (with Kevin Reiss)

• “ChatGPT For Business Use” (Redgrave LLP Issue Analysis) (February 2023) (with Amanda Moeller)

• “Restructuring Planning: Information Governance – Top Ten List” (Redgrave LLP Issue Analysis) (May 2020) (with Charles R. Ragan)

• “INSIGHT: Special Masters Can Help Tame Court Backlogs After Covid-19” (Bloomberg Law) (April 2020) (with 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)

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)