JD Woods Law PLC has launched on-premises electronic discovery for litigation, regulatory, and internal-investigation matters. Document processing runs on firm-owned hardware in Jacksonville, Florida. The flat rate is $0.35 per document, all-in — no separate hosting, ingestion, processing, or production fees.
Cloud eDiscovery platforms typically charge between $1.50 and $3.00 per document once hosting and processing tiers are stacked. The cost difference is meaningful, but the architectural difference matters more: documents subject to attorney-client privilege never leave firm infrastructure. There is no third-party processor in the chain of custody and no cloud vendor to subpoena.
Two recent federal decisions — Morgan v. V2X and Jeffries v. Harcros — have begun setting real requirements for AI tools used on discovery material: contractual safeguards against model training, restrictions on third-party disclosure, and in some cases a bar on open, consumer-grade AI tools entirely. A properly contracted cloud vendor can meet those requirements; self-hosted, air-gapped document processing is one way to meet them without depending on a vendor's contractual promises at all. JD Woods Law's eDiscovery service was built on the latter approach from the start.
Who this is for
- Solo practitioners and small firms handling matters with 5,000–500,000 documents
- Counsel responding to regulatory subpoenas where privilege boundaries are unusually tight
- In-house teams running internal investigations who want privileged review without cloud exposure
Engagements include a secure client portal, custodian list templating, processing reports, and production sets in the format opposing counsel requires. Service details, deliverables, and the intake form are at /ediscovery. The published analysis of Morgan and Jeffries is at the firm blog.