Arthur Fahlbusch is counsel in King & Spalding’s Atlanta office and a member of the firm’s E-Discovery practice. Arthur is a commercial and product liability litigator with experience in all phases of litigation in state and federal courts. His practice focuses on discovery issues, the discovery of electronically stored information in complex litigation, and litigating attorney-client privilege and work product claims.
Arthur has been providing legal advice concerning discovery in complex litigation for more than a fifteen years. He regularly provides guidance on e-discovery practices and cost-effective repeatable processes to address e-discovery issues. Arthur addressed e-discovery issues before that term gained widespread usage. He works with IT professionals regarding litigation support, email, and backup systems. He speaks on electronic discovery and privilege and is a member of e-discovery working groups of The Sedona Conference®. He has trained and supervised large discovery teams. Always seeking ways to reduce costs while increasing quality, Arthur developed innovative techniques for preparing privilege logs that allow for more robust (and challenge resistant) entries at a lower overall cost. He has significant experience defending privilege and work product claims and addressing crime-fraud allegations.
Prior to joining King & Spalding in 2001, Arthur practiced in New York for almost 15 years with Shea & Gould, Breed Abbott & Morgan and Chadbourne & Parke LLP. His practice included all phases of civil litigation in state and federal courts, including drafting and arguing motions and appeals, taking and defending depositions, and examining witnesses at trial. Drawing upon that experience and his substantial discovery experience, Arthur seeks to counsel clients so that discovery issues do not overshadow the merits of the litigation.
His experience with large-scale complex discovery began in the mid-1990s while defending several cigarette manufacturers in the landmark Medicaid cost recovery actions brought by state attorneys general against the tobacco industry.
After joining King & Spalding in 2001, Arthur assumed primary day-to-day responsibility for all discovery issues across the country in connection with King & Spalding’s role as National Discovery Counsel for the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation. That included a well-publicized action brought by the federal government.
Arthur also had primary responsibility for defending privilege and work product claims in various courts across the country for a major pharmaceutical company and has primary responsibility for defending privilege and work product claims in a multidistrict litigation for a major automobile company.
In the firm’s role as National Discovery Coordinating Counsel for a major financial institution, Arthur was the primary contact. In that capacity, he regularly addressed various discovery issues.
After graduating from law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Truman A. Morrison, III of the District of Columbia Superior Court.
