Government Litigation Support Contractor
A contracting officer screens for three things before reading a word of your capability narrative: are you registered, what have you actually delivered, and can you be bought on the vehicle in front of them. Pro-Legal Services, Inc. is a government litigation support contractor based in Arlington, Virginia — a small business, minority-owned, registered and […]
Small Business Litigation Support Vendor
Every agency has a small business participation goal and a small business specialist whose job is to find vendors who can actually perform. The hard part of that job is not finding small businesses. It is finding ones with past performance. Pro-Legal Services, Inc. is a small business and minority-owned litigation support vendor in Arlington, […]
Vaughn Index Support for Agency Counsel
Search this term and you get two things: the Justice Department’s own guidance, and job postings for FOIA analysts. No vendor is offering it, which is strange, because at volume it is a structured data problem. A Vaughn index is the document-by-document justification an agency files when it defends withholding in FOIA litigation. The name […]
Administrative Record Preparation for APA Cases
An APA challenge is not an eDiscovery case. There is usually no party discovery at all. What there is instead is a record that has to be assembled, numbered, redacted, indexed and certified — and vendors who sell it as eDiscovery give themselves away. Federal agency litigation has surged, and a great deal of it […]
FOIA Redaction Services for Agencies
FOIA does not just require you to redact. It requires you to show, on the released page, how much you took out and which exemption you used — and where feasible, to show it at the spot where the deletion was made. Most redaction software markets accuracy. The statutory obligation is about disclosure of the […]
Agency SOP Compliance eDiscovery Requirements
Agencies do not run discovery the same way. One has a centralized eDiscovery division that delivers into its own platform and does not review. Another has nothing. A vendor that assumes either one is wrong half the time. Agency SOP compliance eDiscovery work begins with a question most vendors skip: what does this particular agency […]
State and Local Government Litigation Support
A county attorney’s office and a federal agency buy the same services under completely different rules, on completely different money, with completely different public-records exposure. Treating them as one market is how vendors lose both. State and local government litigation support is a separate market from federal work, and the differences are procedural rather than […]