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 […]
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 […]
Mandarin Document Review | Tokenization Breaks First
East Asian review fails quietly. A search that returns nothing looks exactly like a search with no responsive documents, and nobody checks which one happened. Chinese, Japanese and Korean text does not behave like European-language text in a review platform. The failures are not error messages. They are empty result sets that look like good […]
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, […]