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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Full Service eDiscovery Provider: Collection, Review and Production
Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. is a full service eDiscovery provider and independent litigation support company delivering the complete discovery lifecycle for law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies. Since 1999 we have managed ESI collection services, ESI processing, forensic data collection, managed document review, AI document review, eDiscovery hosting, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]