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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]