Overview
In modern litigation and government investigations, the documents are electronic and the volumes are large. How a party handles preservation, collection, review, and production often shapes the outcome as much as the legal arguments do. Mishandled e-discovery creates sanctions exposure and privilege waivers; well-handled e-discovery surfaces the facts that win the case. Fridman Fels & Soto treats discovery as a substantive part of strategy, not an administrative afterthought.
The firm's litigators run document-intensive matters, including internal investigations and cross-border cases where the relevant documents sit in foreign jurisdictions and foreign languages. The firm conducts review directly in Spanish and Portuguese, which matters when the key communications are not in English and a translation layer would slow the work and lose nuance. That capability lets the lawyers who will actually use the evidence understand it firsthand.
The firm pairs that substantive command with the practical tooling of modern review: defensible collection, technology-assisted review where appropriate, privilege protocols, and production specifications negotiated to fit the matter. The goal is a discovery process that is defensible, efficient, and built around the case theory.
Our Approach
We set the framework before collection begins: a litigation hold, a preservation and collection plan, a privilege protocol, and, in cross-border matters, an analysis of foreign data-protection and privacy law that can restrict transfers out of the source country. Getting these right at the start is what keeps the process defensible and avoids re-doing work later.
We design review around the case theory, not the other way around. Reviewers, including the lawyers who will argue the matter, look for the facts that prove or disprove the claims. In foreign-language matters we review in the original language. We use technology-assisted review and analytics where they improve speed and accuracy, and we negotiate production format and search terms with opposing parties or the government to control scope.
We coordinate discovery across parallel proceedings. When a civil case, an SEC inquiry, and a criminal investigation touch the same documents, productions in one can surface in the others, so we manage them as a connected whole.
