Common Benefit Document Repository Support
Nine case management orders from nine different MDLs rank for this term. Zero vendors. The repository is a funded, court-ordered role, and nobody is competing for it. In an MDL, the leadership group builds one document depository that every plaintiff’s case draws on. It is established by case management order, its costs are usually recoverable […]
Lone Pine Order Compliance Support
In the Zostavax MDL the court dismissed 1,189 cases for failure to comply with a Lone Pine order. Compliance is a document production exercise with case-dismissal stakes, and it is almost always staffed as an afterthought. A Lone Pine order is, in Faegre Drinker’s description, a case management order that requires all plaintiffs to produce […]
Copilot eDiscovery Collection: Your Custodians’ AI Prompts Are Already in the Mailbox
Microsoft 365 stores every AI prompt and response as a mailbox item. Collecting them is a different job from collecting mail. Every prompt a custodian types into Microsoft 365 Copilot, and every response it returns, is stored in that custodian’s mailbox. So are their ChatGPT Enterprise sessions, their Microsoft Foundry and Entra app interactions, their […]
The AI Notetaker Is Making a Second Set of Minutes, and It Is Discoverable
A Delaware court had both the official board minutes and the AI transcript of the same meetings. They did not match. In August 2026 the Delaware Court of Chancery decided a case in which it had two records of the same board meetings: the official minutes, and AI-generated transcripts. The minutes described a defensive measure […]
Government Contract Record Retention Rules
FAR 4.703 lets you image your records and throw the paper away. It also says you must keep the originals for a minimum of one year after imaging, and that your indexing has to allow timely access. Most contractors do the first part. Record retention is the least interesting obligation a government contractor has and […]
Government Litigation Support Contractor
A contracting officer screens for three things before reading a word of your capability narrative: are you registered, what have you actually delivered, and can you be bought on the vehicle in front of them. Pro-Legal Services, Inc. is a government litigation support contractor based in Arlington, Virginia — a small business, minority-owned, registered and […]
Chain of Custody for Digital Evidence: Six Places Collections Fail
Arlington, Virginia · Washington DC, Maryland & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. performs forensic data collection under documented chain of custody, and we are regularly asked to assess collections somebody else ran. Collections almost never get challenged on the technology. They get challenged on the record — who had the data, when, what was taken, what […]
International Service of Process and Cross-Border Document Delivery
Arlington, Virginia · Minutes from Washington DC · Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. handles international service of process, cross-border document delivery, and foreign document legalization for law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies. We manage the transmittal, the translation, and the authentication as one workflow, with tracking and a documented chain of custody from intake […]
3D Printed Trial Exhibits and Physical Models
Arlington, Virginia · Minutes from the DC Courts · Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. produces 3D printed trial exhibits and physical models for law firms, printed from the CAD and print files your expert, engineer, or animation vendor supplies. We do not build the model for you, which keeps your expert’s work and their testimony about […]
eDiscovery for Small Law Firms
Arlington, Virginia · Washington DC, Maryland & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. provides eDiscovery for small law firms and solo practitioners on terms that fit the matter rather than the vendor. No minimum monthly commitments. No per-seat user licenses. No per-gigabyte markup. Usage-based pricing where you pay for what you actually use, and a transparent rate […]