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 restricting how generative AI can be used in document review without exposing privilege. Self-hosted document processing is, for now, the only architecture that satisfies both rulings. JD Woods Law's eDiscovery service was designed against that compliance standard 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.