Redgrave LLP, a collaboration of seven lawyers who bring experience from major law firms and Fortune 100 companies, will advise clients about issues related to electronic discovery, privacy and data retention and protection from the firm's offices in Minneapolis, San Francisco and D.C.

"Clearly the issues medium and large companies face in these areas are only growing," said Jonathan Redgrave, a former partner at Nixon Peabody who also co-chairs Georgetown University Law School's E-Discovery Institute. "A lot of lawyers don't really understand computers, which creates an opportunity for those of us who do."

Other lawyers in the firm's District office include Managing Partner Victoria Redgrave, who was most recently vice president and general counsel at Technology Concepts & Design, and Seth C. Simpson, who comes to Redgrave from a chemical company after being an associate at Kaye Scholer in New York.

Jonathan Redgrave said that the smaller firm atmosphere will allow Redgrave's attorneys to focus on information law exclusively, reach a broader range of clients and provide the flexibility to react to the marketplace.

"At a lot of firms, people will be doing this and five or six other things in order to get their hours," Redgrave said. "By having a law firm that focuses on this area, it gives us greater mobility to react to the marketplace by using alternative fees and allows us to have freedom from the conflicts you would have at big law firms."