JD Woods Law PLC has added litigation-hold and preservation counsel to its on-premises eDiscovery service in Jacksonville, Florida. The service now covers the front end of a matter — the point at which a lawsuit becomes reasonably foreseeable and the duty to preserve evidence attaches — not just the document review that comes later.
The reason is simple: most evidence is lost before a complaint is ever filed. A demand letter arrives, the business keeps running as normal, and automated email purges, backup rotation, and routine device offboarding quietly destroy the most relevant records. By the time counsel is engaged, the fight has shifted from the merits to a spoliation motion. The new offering closes that gap by standing up a defensible hold on day one: a written hold notice with acknowledgments, suspension of automated deletion, and immediate preservation of fragile and departing-employee data.
Preservation runs on firm-owned hardware, with no cloud vendor in the chain of custody and a flat per-document rate that holds through the life of the matter. The architecture is the same one behind the firm's existing eDiscovery work — built to satisfy federal courts that have begun restricting how generative AI touches privileged material.
Service details and the intake form are at /ediscovery. The companion analysis of the mistakes that turn a routine matter into a sanctions fight is at the firm blog.