Chain of Custody for Digital Evidence: Six Places Collections Fail
Arlington, Virginia · Washington DC, Maryland & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. performs forensic data collection under documented chain of custody, and we are regularly asked to assess collections somebody else ran. Collections almost never get challenged on the technology. They get challenged on the record — who had the data, when, what was taken, what […]
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 […]
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 […]
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery: What Changed and What It Means for Collections
Arlington, Virginia · Washington DC, Maryland & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. performs Microsoft Purview eDiscovery collections, Microsoft 365 eDiscovery, Teams data collection, SharePoint and OneDrive collection, and Exchange Online collection for law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies. Microsoft has been retiring the classic eDiscovery experience in favor of Purview, and the practical consequence […]
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. […]
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 […]