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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Forensic Data Collection Services for Law Firms
Arlington, Virginia · Washington DC, Maryland & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. provides forensic data collection services, digital forensics for law firms, and ESI collection for litigation, internal investigations, and regulatory matters. Every collection runs under documented chain of custody with forensic preservation and audit-ready reporting, because a collection that cannot be explained later is a […]
AI Document Review for Litigation
Arlington, Virginia · Washington DC, Maryland & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. provides AI document review for litigation, managed review, and technology assisted review for law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies. We run review as a production service with a written protocol, trained reviewers, continuous quality control, and validation you can put in front […]
Agentic eDiscovery: Where AI Review Actually Stands in 2026
Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia & Nationwide Agentic eDiscovery is the newest tier of review technology, and it is also the most oversold. Pro-Legal Services, Inc. runs managed document review and AI document review for law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies, which means we evaluate these tools on real matters rather than in demonstrations. […]
Managed Document Review and Technology Assisted Review for Litigation
Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. provides managed document review services, legal document review, and technology assisted review for law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies. Review is normally the largest single cost in a document-heavy matter, and it is where defensibility is most often won or lost. We staff, train, […]
eDiscovery Cost Reduction: Five Levers That Actually Move the Number
Arlington, Virginia · Washington DC, Maryland & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. provides eDiscovery services, managed document review, and eDiscovery hosting for law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies, and clients who move to us typically reduce eDiscovery costs by 20 to 30 percent measured against their prior vendor invoices. Most of that reduction is […]
Discovery Starts the Day After Institution. Your Collection Has Not.
Requests can issue immediately and responses come due in days, not the thirty a federal civil case allows. In a federal civil case, a party has thirty days to respond to document requests and the schedule is negotiable. In a Section 337 investigation, discovery requests may be served the day after the institution notice publishes, […]