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 […]
Ninety Days to Close Discovery: A Production Calendar for the Rocket Docket
In the Eastern District of Virginia the schedule does not move. Here is the calendar, worked backward from the cutoff. In most federal districts a vendor running a week late is an inconvenience. In the Eastern District of Virginia a week is a meaningful fraction of the entire discovery period. The scheduling order typically issues […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
Foreign-Language Discovery in a 337: Eight Questions Before the Documents Arrive
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. Section 337 is an import statute, so the record arrives in Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, German, and Traditional Chinese more often than not. Firms that treat Section 337 […]