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 […]
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 […]