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 […]
Subpoena Response and Emergency eDiscovery Services
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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, […]
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 […]
Litigation Hold Services: Six Ways Preservation Quietly Fails
Arlington, Virginia · Washington DC, Maryland & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. provides litigation hold services, preservation support, and forensic data collection for law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies. Preservation failures rarely announce themselves. They surface months later, when a custodian is deposed or a production has a gap nobody can explain, and by […]
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 […]
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, […]