CaseLight Office for Private Sector Investigators:
Investigators sit in the weakest privilege position in the legal ecosystem. There’s no PI‑client privilege and no PI work‑product doctrine. Any protection your files get is borrowed from the attorney who hired you, and courts scrutinize that chain hard. If your case files live on a cloud platform, that vendor becomes a discoverable third party. Opposing counsel can subpoena the provider directly, bypassing you and the attorney entirely. They can argue the storage location shows the work wasn’t “prepared because of litigation,” which is exactly the reasoning judges use when stripping privilege from investigator and forensic reports.
CaseLight removes that vulnerability. No cloud means no third‑party node in the chain of custody, no vendor for a judge to point to, and no inherited Rule 5.3 exposure flowing back onto the attorney who hired you. For investigators who want to keep their work privileged, defensible, and litigation‑aligned, a local‑only system isn’t just safer, it’s the cleanest way to avoid becoming the weak link in the privilege chain.
CaseLight Law for Attorneys:
Every cloud vendor you use becomes your liability. Under ABA Rule 5.3, you inherit your vendor’s breaches, misconfigurations, and security failures as if they were your own. CaseLight removes that entire layer of exposure. No cloud storage means no third‑party subprocessor, no SOC 2 report you have to take on faith, and no breach notification waiting to happen. Your case files stay encrypted at rest on your machine or local area network, under your control, with no outside entity to subpoena, audit, or compromise. For litigation teams who rely on clean privilege chains and defensible evidence handling, a local‑only architecture isn’t just a preference, it’s a way to eliminate an entire category of inherited risk before it ever touches your client.
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