Subpoena Response and Emergency eDiscovery Services
Arlington, Virginia · Available 24/7/365 · Washington DC, Maryland & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. provides subpoena response services, emergency eDiscovery, and expedited document review for law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies. These matters arrive without notice and run on deadlines that were set by someone else. We operate 24/7/365 with a named contact […]
Federal Agency eDiscovery and Litigation Support Services
Arlington, Virginia · Serving Federal, State and Local Agencies Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. provides federal agency eDiscovery services and litigation support to federal, state, and local government. We have supported public sector engagements since 1999, including federal digitization projects exceeding 800,000 pages delivered ahead of schedule and under budget, and eDiscovery matters on datasets measured […]
Confidential Business Information Redaction and Public Version Preparation
Arlington, Virginia · Washington DC, Maryland & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. provides confidential business information redaction, CBI redaction services, document redaction, and public version preparation for law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies. We handle redaction at production volume for ITC Section 337 investigations, antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings, regulatory filings, FOIA responses, and […]
Everything Pro-Legal Does, for Law Firms of Every Size
Arlington, Virginia · Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia & Nationwide · Since 1999 Pro-Legal Services, Inc. provides litigation support services for law firms of every size — from solo practitioners with a twenty-gigabyte matter to federal agencies with multi-terabyte productions. We are a family-run boutique in Arlington, Virginia, minutes from Washington, D.C., and we have been […]
Every Filing Has Two Versions. Keep Them Consistent.
Confidential and public versions are a production discipline, and the place 337 productions most often come apart. Nearly every substantive filing in a Section 337 investigation exists twice: a confidential version and a public version with the business information removed. Both are filed electronically through EDIS, on a schedule that leaves no time to rebuild […]
Domestic Industry Is a Document Production Problem
The economic prong turns on investment records that live in systems nobody collects from in ordinary litigation. The economic prong of the domestic industry requirement asks whether there are significant investments in plant and equipment, significant employment of labor or capital, or substantial investment in exploitation including engineering, research and development, or licensing. Each of […]
The 100-Day Order: What It Demands of a Respondent
An early disposition request compresses an already short schedule into a sprint that starts before institution. A respondent who wants a dispositive issue decided early asks for it before institution, typically around two weeks after the complaint is filed. If the Commission grants it, the notice of institution directs the ALJ to issue an initial […]
Read the Ground Rules Before You Process a Single Document
Each ALJ sets their own. Production format, exhibit handling and witness statements are decided there, not by a Commission-wide standard. The first thing that should happen on a Section 337 investigation, before collection and well before processing, is that somebody reads the assigned judge’s ground rules and writes down what they require. Vendors who skip […]
ITC Hearing Exhibits: What to Settle Before Hearing Week
ITC Hearing Exhibits: What to Settle Before Hearing Week Arlington, Virginia · Minutes from the Commission · Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. supports Section 337 practices before the Commission, and we have handled ITC matters. ITC hearing exhibits get built in the compressed window between the close of expert discovery and hearing week, usually while the […]
Respondent-Side 337: What to Have in Place in the First Thirty Days
Arlington, Virginia · Minutes from the U.S. International Trade Commission · Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. supports Section 337 practices before the Commission, and we have handled ITC matters — including on the respondent side, which is where the document burden usually lands. Respondent-side 337 work starts at a disadvantage that has nothing to do with […]