Broker-Dealer Records Production Support
An examination request and a litigation document request look similar and are not. One is answered from an archive that was supposed to be compliant all along, and the gap between supposed and actual is where the findings come from. Broker-dealers and investment advisers live under records requirements that are continuous rather than event-driven. When […]
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 […]
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. […]