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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Translation of Evidence for Litigation and Cross-Border Matters
Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. handles translation of evidence for litigation — certified legal document translation built for matters that end up in front of a judge, not for the general commercial market. We translate pleadings, contracts, discovery materials, patents, corporate records, regulatory filings, and evidentiary documents for law firms, corporate […]
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 […]
Foreign Language Document Review | Three Tiers
A two hundred thousand document Mandarin population cannot be human-translated on any budget anyone will approve, and leaving it untranslated means reviewing blind. The way out is translating at three different depths. Multilingual review goes wrong in one of two directions. Translate everything properly and the budget is gone before review starts. Translate nothing and […]
Mandarin Document Review | Tokenization Breaks First
East Asian review fails quietly. A search that returns nothing looks exactly like a search with no responsive documents, and nobody checks which one happened. Chinese, Japanese and Korean text does not behave like European-language text in a review platform. The failures are not error messages. They are empty result sets that look like good […]
Cross-Border Discovery: What Changes When the Data Is Overseas
Arlington, Virginia · Washington DC, Maryland & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. supports Section 337 practices before the Commission and handles cross-border matters generally. Cross-border discovery breaks the assumptions domestic matters are built on. The custodians are asleep when your team is working, the documents are in another language, local IT has never seen a U.S. […]
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 […]
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, […]