Government Contract Record Retention Rules
FAR 4.703 lets you image your records and throw the paper away. It also says you must keep the originals for a minimum of one year after imaging, and that your indexing has to allow timely access. Most contractors do the first part. Record retention is the least interesting obligation a government contractor has and […]
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 […]
Subpoena Response and Emergency eDiscovery Services
Arlington, Virginia · Available 24/7/365 · Washington DC, Maryland & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. provides subpoena response services, emergency eDiscovery, and expedited document review for law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies. These matters arrive without notice and run on deadlines that were set by someone else. We operate 24/7/365 with a named contact […]
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 […]
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 […]