Talk to Me

Information governance is a small field. There aren’t enough people in it, there aren’t enough mentors for the people who are entering it, and most early-career practitioners I meet are figuring it out alone. I don’t think that should be normal.

If you’re in one of these situations, I’ll talk to you:

• You’re a student or career-switcher considering information governance, records management, e-discovery, or adjacent fields, and you want to ask whether it’s a real career.
• You’re in your first ~7 years in the field and you want to talk through a problem you’re stuck on, a decision you’re weighing, or just how the field works at scale.
• You’re in a junior role at a firm or in-house team, you don’t have a mentor, and you’d like one conversation to figure out whether you want to stay.

I can’t help with:

• Job placement at Gibson Dunn or anywhere else. I’m not a recruiter and I don’t pass referrals as favors.
• Free consulting on a specific project. If you have a real engagement-shaped problem, you need a paid consultant, not me.
• Legal advice. I’m not a lawyer.
• Vendor recommendations. I don’t endorse vendors publicly.

How it works

Email me at christopher.l.hockey@gmail.com with a couple sentences about who you are and what you want to talk about. I read everything. I respond to most things within two weeks. If a 30-minute call makes sense, I’ll send a booking link.

I do this because someone did it for me, and the field needs more of it.

Views are my own and not those of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.