Hyperlinked Document Production: Settle the Parameters Before Discovery, Not After
A 2026 decision in the District of Columbia set a tiered framework for modern attachments and short messages. It is the most practical guidance available. A cloud link pasted into an email is not an attachment, and treating it like one is how productions fall apart. The linked file lives somewhere else, it may have […]
Copilot eDiscovery Collection: Your Custodians’ AI Prompts Are Already in the Mailbox
Microsoft 365 stores every AI prompt and response as a mailbox item. Collecting them is a different job from collecting mail. Every prompt a custodian types into Microsoft 365 Copilot, and every response it returns, is stored in that custodian’s mailbox. So are their ChatGPT Enterprise sessions, their Microsoft Foundry and Entra app interactions, their […]
Chain of Custody for Digital Evidence: Six Places Collections Fail
Arlington, Virginia · Washington DC, Maryland & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. performs forensic data collection under documented chain of custody, and we are regularly asked to assess collections somebody else ran. Collections almost never get challenged on the technology. They get challenged on the record — who had the data, when, what was taken, what […]
Forensic Data Collection Services for Law Firms
Arlington, Virginia · Washington DC, Maryland & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. provides forensic data collection services, digital forensics for law firms, and ESI collection for litigation, internal investigations, and regulatory matters. Every collection runs under documented chain of custody with forensic preservation and audit-ready reporting, because a collection that cannot be explained later is a […]
Litigation Hold Services: Six Ways Preservation Quietly Fails
Arlington, Virginia · Washington DC, Maryland & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. provides litigation hold services, preservation support, and forensic data collection for law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies. Preservation failures rarely announce themselves. They surface months later, when a custodian is deposed or a production has a gap nobody can explain, and by […]
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery: What Changed and What It Means for Collections
Arlington, Virginia · Washington DC, Maryland & Nationwide Pro-Legal Services, Inc. performs Microsoft Purview eDiscovery collections, Microsoft 365 eDiscovery, Teams data collection, SharePoint and OneDrive collection, and Exchange Online collection for law firms, corporate legal departments, and government agencies. Microsoft has been retiring the classic eDiscovery experience in favor of Purview, and the practical consequence […]