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 […]
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. […]
Respondent-Side 337: What to Have in Place in the First Thirty Days
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 — including on the respondent side, which is where the document burden usually lands. Respondent-side 337 work starts at a disadvantage that has nothing to do with […]
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 […]