Monica McCarroll

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 has represented and advised clients engaged in state and federal litigation and regulatory investigations in many areas of law, including antitrust and False Claims Act cases, and handles all stages of pre-trial litigation and discovery, including preparing, briefing, and arguing motions; preparing experts for deposition; and taking and defending depositions. Monica’s experience also includes successfully representing clients in multi-district litigation 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 also counseled clients on developing and implementing eDiscovery best practices and provides information governance counsel to several Fortune 500 clients, including analyzing and updating policies regarding the generation, use, retention, and disposition of data.

Monica served on the Executive Council of the IP/IT Section of the Virginia Bar Association (2015 – 2019) and spearheaded the creation of an Electronically Stored Information (ESI) Subcommittee to address eDiscovery and high technology issues. She is also a speaker and writer on Information Law issues and teaches an eDiscovery course at William & Mary Law School in Virginia.

Before joining Redgrave, Monica was a partner at Williams Mullen, where she chaired the firm’s eDiscovery and Information Governance practice and participated as counsel in a private cause of action under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

Professional Memberships

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

• Member, International Association of Privacy Professionals

• Member, Women in eDiscovery

• Member, The Sedona Conference®

Publications

Selected Publications

• “Evergreen Employee Training on Legal Hold Data Preservation: A Modern Organizational Necessity” (Redgrave LLP Issue Analysis) (April 2025) (with Alyssa M. Ogden and Paul W. Ketz)

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

• “Modern Attachments: Pointers Are Not the Problem When It Comes to Preservation” (Legaltech News) (September 2022) (with Staci D. Kaliner and Ben Barnes)

• “Learning from Trump and Bannon Discovery Strategies” (Law 360) (September 2022) (with Mathea K.E. Bulander)

• “Let’s Start by Calling Them What They Are for Discovery: ‘Pointers’ Not ‘Modern Attachments’” (Legaltech News) (August 2022) (with Staci D. Kaliner and Ben Barnes)

• “2020 Amendment to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(6) Echoes the Aspirations of the 2015 Amendments” (Redgrave LLP Issue Analysis) (January 2021) (with Mathea K.E. Bulander)

• “Act Now or Pay Later: The Case for Defensible Disposition of Data” (Thomson Reuters Practical Law) (April 2015) (with Diana M. Fasching and Benjamin Joffe)

Recent Speaking Engagements

• Panelist, “GenAI Document Review: Best Practices & Legal Requirements,” EDI Summer Meeting (June 2025)

• Presenter, “2024 Lookback on Top eDiscovery Decisions and Trends,” Washington D.C. Chapter of Women in eDiscovery (January 2025)

• Presenter, “Extraordinary Discovery for the Extraordinary Case - Navigating E-Discovery and Record Retention Issues Presented by Cases of Catastrophic Injury,” National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel (NARTC) Annual Meeting (July 2024)

• Panelist, “eDiscovery and Hyperlinked Files in Emails: Considerations for Collecting, Searching, and Producing Modern Attachments,” Strafford (May 2024)

• Panelist, “eDiscovery in MDLs: Overcoming Unique Challenges,” TCDI (May 2024)

• Co-Presenter, “2023 Lookback on Top eDiscovery Decisions and Trends,” Washington, D.C. Chapters of Women in eDiscovery (January 2024)

• 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)