Post-Breach Class Action Document Production
Capital One kept a forensic firm on retainer, then engaged it through outside counsel after the breach. A court held the resulting report producible, because the services under both agreements were identical. The notification review gets the attention and the specialist tools. The litigation that follows the notification is a different engagement, and it is […]
Broker-Dealer Records Production Support
An examination request and a litigation document request look similar and are not. One is answered from an archive that was supposed to be compliant all along, and the gap between supposed and actual is where the findings come from. Broker-dealers and investment advisers live under records requirements that are continuous rather than event-driven. When […]
What a 200,000-Document Mandarin Review Actually Costs
The number depends almost entirely on one decision: how much of the population you translate to what standard. A foreign-language review population has exactly two ways to go wrong. Translate all of it to certified standard and you will spend six figures on documents that turn out to be irrelevant. Translate none of it and […]
Suspension and Debarment Document Support
A show cause letter arrives and the company has perhaps thirty days to demonstrate present responsibility. Whatever your document systems are on the day it lands is what you are working with. Suspension and debarment is not litigation. It is an administrative determination about whether the government should do business with you, and the question […]
Ninety Days to Close Discovery: A Production Calendar for the Rocket Docket
In the Eastern District of Virginia the schedule does not move. Here is the calendar, worked backward from the cutoff. In most federal districts a vendor running a week late is an inconvenience. In the Eastern District of Virginia a week is a meaningful fraction of the entire discovery period. The scheduling order typically issues […]
SEC Data Delivery Standards Compliance
PDFs are not an acceptable format for images. Deduplication and AI-assisted review must be approved by Enforcement before you do it. Google Drive and Microsoft 365 links are not accepted. All three are in the SEC’s own specification, and almost nobody reads it before producing. The Securities and Exchange Commission publishes exactly what a production […]
Wells Notice Document Production
By the time a Wells notice arrives, the staff has already read your documents and formed a view. The production that follows is not discovery. It is argument, and it is built from the record you already gave them. A Wells notice tells you the staff intends to recommend an enforcement action. What follows is […]
GCC High eDiscovery: Why Your Usual Collection Method Does Not Work
Government cloud tenants are not commercial tenants with a different logo. The tooling is different and so is the workflow. If your client runs in Microsoft 365 GCC, GCC High or DoD, a collection plan written for a commercial tenant will not execute. The graphical tooling that commercial collections rely on is unavailable in those […]
Hyperlinked Document Production: Settle the Parameters Before Discovery, Not After
A 2026 decision in the District of Columbia set a tiered framework for modern attachments and short messages. It is the most practical guidance available. A cloud link pasted into an email is not an attachment, and treating it like one is how productions fall apart. The linked file lives somewhere else, it may have […]
Bellwether Trial Document Preparation
Search this and you get case management orders. Nine of them, from nine different MDLs, and not one vendor page. The firms that do this work do not advertise it, which tells you something about how it gets staffed. A bellwether is tried like any other case, except that the record behind it was built […]