Gareth T. Evans

Practice Areas

E-Discovery & Information Governance

Career

Gareth T. Evans, Partner at Redgrave LLP, 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.

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.

Professional Memberships

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

• Member, The Sedona Conference® Working Group on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery, and Disclosure Working Group 6

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

• Board Member, Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society

Publications

Selected Publications

• “Preserving and Collecting Mobile Device Data” (Westlaw Today) (updated May 2025) (with Nick B. Snavely and Thomas Seymour)

• “New Challenges and Promising Solutions—The Best Days of eDiscovery Are Coming” (Redgrave LLP Issue Analysis) (December 2024)

• “The Sedona Conference, Commentary on Discovery of Collaboration Platform Data” (forthcoming from The Sedona Conference Working Group 1) (drafting team lead)

• “The Sedona Conference TAR Case Law Primer, Second Edition, The Primer” (The Sedona Conference Working Group 1) (May 2023) (served on Drafting Team)

• “Privilege Logs: Mitigating The Burden of Privilege Logging While Improving Usefulness” (Washington Legal Foundation) (March 17, 2023) (with Ted Hiser)

• “Supremes Bury Privilege Case After Oral Argument” (Legaltech News) (February 7, 2023) (with Daniel Zagoren and Ana Cabassa-Torres)

• “The Sedona Conference® TAR Case Law Primer, Second Edition” (February 2023) (public comment version) (drafting team member)

• “Texas Supreme Court Rejects Overbroad Discovery of Cell Phone Data” (Legaltech News) (January 10, 2023)

• “E-Discovery Trends in 2022” (Westlaw Today) (December 16, 2022)

• “Supreme Court to Resolve Circuit Split Regarding Attorney-Client Privilege” (Legaltech News) (October 25, 2022) (with Ted Hiser)

• “Steps Companies Can Take to Mitigate Privilege Labeling Risk” (Law360) (June 14, 2022) (with James Hertsch)

• “A Tale of Two Cases: TAR Trouble Arises From ESI Protocol” (Legaltech News) (January 2021) (The Legal Intelligencer 2021 E-Discovery Special Section March 2021)

• “6th Circ. Opioid Opinion On Federal Rules Helps Cos. In MDLs” (Law360) (May 11, 2020) (with Nick Snavely)

• “The Sedona Conference® Primer on Social Media—Second Edition” (February 2019) (drafting team member and Working Group 1 Steering Committee Liaison)

Recent Speaking Engagements

• Speaker, Panelist, “Commentary on Discovery of Collaboration Platforms Data,” The Sedona Conference Working Webinar, (April 2025)

• Panelist, “Drafting Team Updates: Privilege in Government Proceedings and Modern Collaboration Platforms,” The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 (WG1) (October 2024)

• Panelist, “Two’s Company, Three Can Be a Waiver: Preserving Privilege in an Increasingly Collaborative World,” Annual EDI Leadership Summit (October 2023)

• Moderator, “Drafting Team Report: Discovery of Modern Communications and Collaboration Platforms,” The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 (WG1) (October 2023)

• Panelist, “Standing at the Edge of Privilege,” American Bar Association’s 17th Annual National Institute on E-Discovery (May 2023)

• Panelist, “The Sedona Conference TAR Case Law Primer, Second Edition,” The Sedona Conference Webinar (March 16, 2022)

• Presenter, “Mobile Device Forensics and Case Development,” 2022 Virtual Hawaii State Bar Association Annual Bar Convention and Annual Meeting (October 12, 2022)

• Presenter, “California Roundtable – A Discussion of the 2020 changes to handling eDiscovery under California law,” San Diego Paralegal Association and ACEDS Orange County Chapter’s eDiscovery Summer Refresher 2.0 Virtual Conference (August 2021)

• Panelist, “Working Group 1 Virtual Town Hall on Technology Assisted Review (“TAR”),” The Sedona Conference® Virtual Town Hall (March 2, 2021)

• Panelist, “AI and Privilege Review Today—and Tomorrow,” Corporate Counsel Business Journal CLE Webinar Panel (February 24, 2021)

• Panelist, “Demystifying AI - Robotic Process Automation (“RPA”) – Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing (“NLP”),” Corporate Counsel Business Journal Inner Circle E-Discovery Event (December 9, 2020)

• Panelist, “Ephemeral Messaging – Navigating Risk Amid Increasing Adoption,” Redgrave LLP Webinar (January 2019)

• Panelist, “Legal Holds 2.0 – Modernizing Your Legal Holds,” Redgrave LLP Webinar (December 2019)