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• FOIA Request Guide

  Filing and managing federal FOIA requests — agency identification, request drafting, fee waivers, exemptions, appeals, and litigation under 5 U.S.C. § 552

• Build IRS 1099 E-File (IRIS CSV / A2A XML)

  Convert payee payment data into an IRIS-ready information-return file for the 1099 series — the IRIS Taxpayer Portal CSV (≤250/file) or A2A XML, the 10-return e-file threshold, issuer/recipient/amount/state field mapping, deadlines, and a worked 1099-NEC example (FIRE/Publication 1220 retires after TY2026)

• Migrate Publication 1220 (FIRE) File to IRIS CSV

  Convert an existing IRS Publication 1220 fixed-width FIRE file into IRIS Taxpayer Portal CSV files — un-imputing implied-decimal money fields, splitting by A-record Type of Return into one CSV per form, mapping amount codes to numbered boxes, and dropping the T/C/K/F records IRIS no longer uses (FIRE retires after TY2026)

• Build IRIS Transmitter Control Code (TCC) Application Worksheet

  Convert a firm's organizational, official, and filing details into a complete IRIS IR-Application-for-TCC worksheet — firm block, roles, transmission method, Responsible Officials and Contacts with their minimums, forms, and the ID.me/e-signature out-of-band steps (a new IRIS TCC is required and a FIRE TCC does not carry over)

• Build SSA W-2 EFW2 File (Publication 42-007)

  Convert annual payroll data into the EFW2 512-byte fixed-width file for SSA Business Services Online — record sequence (RA/RE/RW/RO/RS/RT/RU/RF), key W-2 box mapping, cents-formatting and reconciliation rules, deadlines, and a worked example

• Build IRS Form 941 E-File (94x MeF XML)

  Convert a quarter's payroll figures into a Form 941 (Employer's Quarterly Federal Tax Return) 94x MeF XML — line mapping, Social Security 12.4% / Medicare 2.9% / Additional Medicare 0.9%, deposit reconciliation, Schedule B vs Line 16, signature options, deadlines, and a worked example

• Build IRS Form 940 E-File (94x MeF XML)

  Convert annual FUTA wage data into a Form 940 (Employer's Annual Federal Unemployment Tax Return) 94x MeF XML — $7,000 wage base, 6.0% rate with 5.4% credit (net 0.6%), Schedule A multi-state and credit-reduction states, deposit threshold, deadlines, and a worked example

• Build State SUI/SUTA Wage File (ICESA Fixed-Width)

  Convert quarterly per-employee payroll into a state unemployment-insurance wage-detail file in the ICESA fixed-width layout — A/B/E/S/T/F record sequence, state account number, taxable-wage-base capping and excess wages, cents formatting, reconciliation, and a worked example (state-specific — confirm the target state's spec)

• Build IRS Form 1120 E-File (Business MeF XML)

  Convert C-corporation financials into a Form 1120 (U.S. Corporation Income Tax Return) Business MeF XML — income/deduction lines, Schedules C/J/K/L/M-1 or M-3, 21% tax computation, balance-sheet and book-to-tax reconciliation, e-file mandate thresholds, deadlines, and a worked example

• Build IRS Form 1065 E-File (Partnership MeF XML)

  Convert partnership books and per-partner allocations into a Form 1065 (U.S. Return of Partnership Income) Partnership MeF XML with Schedule K and per-partner Schedule K-1 — distributive-share allocation (ΣK-1 = K), separately-stated items, tax-basis capital accounts, M-1/M-3, BBA representative, deadlines, and a worked example

• Build Health Care Claim EDI (X12 837)

  Convert a patient encounter into an ASC X12N 837 health care claim (837P 005010X222A1 / 837I X223A2 / 837D X224A2) — ISA/GS/ST envelope, hierarchical billing/subscriber/claim/service loops, NPI/ICD-10-CM/CPT-HCPCS mapping, diagnosis pointers, charge reconciliation, COB, and a worked 837P example

• Parse Health Care Remittance EDI (X12 835)

  Parse an ASC X12N 835 remittance advice (005010X221A1) into postable A/R data — BPR/TRN payment reassociation, CLP claim and SVC service-line payments, CAS adjustments by group code (CO/PR/OA/PI/CR) and CARC/RARC, PLB provider-level adjustments, reconciliation rules, and a worked posting example

• Build Benefit Enrollment EDI (X12 834)

  Convert member eligibility changes into an ASC X12N 834 Benefit Enrollment and Maintenance transaction (005010X220A1) — sponsor/payer identification, INS maintenance types (add/change/terminate/reinstate) and relationship codes, HD coverage and effective dates, full-file vs change-file handling, and a worked example

• Build Eligibility Inquiry/Response EDI (X12 270/271)

  Build an ASC X12N 270 eligibility/benefit inquiry and parse the 271 response (005010X279A1) — source/receiver/subscriber/dependent hierarchy, NPI and member matching via DMG, EQ service-type codes, TRN trace round-trip, EB eligibility/benefit and AAA reject parsing, and a worked 270/271 example

• Build FBAR Batch E-File (FinCEN 114 XML)

  Convert foreign financial account data into a FinCEN Report 114 (FBAR) batch XML for the BSA E-Filing System — the $10,000 aggregate threshold, filer identity, financial-interest vs signature-authority accounts, max-value USD conversion, amended/late handling, deadlines (Apr 15 / auto Oct 15), and a worked example

• Build EDRM XML Load File (Interchange Package)

  Convert a processed ESI document set into an EDRM XML v1.2 interchange package — Document/Tag/File/Relationship structure, native/text/image references with hashes, family and duplicate relationships, DocID join-key integrity, and a worked example for ingestion into Relativity/Nuix/Everlaw/Reveal

• Build Concordance/Relativity Load File (DAT + OPT)

  Convert a processed document set into Concordance DAT (delimited metadata) + Opticon OPT (image cross-reference) load files — default delimiters (¶/þ/®), Bates and family fields, DocBreak page boundaries, native/text paths, date-format rules, and a worked example for review-platform import

• Build Legal E-Billing File (LEDES 1998B)

  Convert law-firm time & expense records into a LEDES 1998B pipe-delimited e-billing file — the 24-field layout, UTBMS task/activity/expense codes, fee vs expense vs adjustment lines, line-total and invoice-total reconciliation, and a worked example for corporate e-billing intake (TyMetrix/Legal Tracker)

• Generate Litigation Hold Notice

  Convert matter trigger facts and a custodian roster into a court-defensible litigation hold notice — scope (data types, date range, topics), affirmative preservation duties, modern/BYOD sources, central IT/system holds, acknowledgment tracking and reminders, meeting the FRCP 37(e) spoliation-avoidance standard

• Build Custodian ESI Source Map

  Convert custodian-interview responses into a structured ESI source inventory (custodian × data-source × data-type × volume × retention × accessibility × priority) for the FRCP 26(f) meet-and-confer, collection scoping, and preservation certification — including not-reasonably-accessible flags and a worked example

• Detect PII / PHI in a Document Corpus

  Convert document text into a structured PII/PHI entity-detection report — SSNs, financial accounts, DOB, medical-record numbers, biometrics, and contact data per HIPAA Safe Harbor (18 identifiers), NIST SP 800-122, CCPA, and FRCP 5.2 — with hashed values, offsets, jurisdiction flags, and redaction priority for downstream redaction

• Build Redaction Instruction Set

  Convert PII/PHI detection results plus court redaction rules into a per-document redaction instruction set — text-pattern or coordinate targeting, FRCP 5.2 partial forms (last-4/year/initials), burn-in and text/metadata scrubbing, family/near-dup propagation, and a worked example importable into Relativity Redact/Nuix/Everlaw/DISCO

• Build Privilege Log

  Convert withheld/redacted document metadata into an FRCP 26(b)(5)-compliant privilege log — document-by-document vs metadata vs categorical formats, AC/WP/CI/JDA basis coding, fact vs opinion work product, attorney identification, redacted vs withheld handling, and FRE 502 waiver safeguards, with a worked example

• Generate Document Review Coding Protocol

  Convert case facts and requests for production into a structured review coding protocol — responsiveness decision tree, issue-code taxonomy, hot-document criteria, privilege-escalation rules, confidentiality/PII tags, and QC sampling methodology — importable into Relativity/Everlaw/Nuix, with a worked example

• Generate Bates Number Plan

  Convert a document set, prefix requirements, and confidentiality designations into a Bates numbering plan and per-document assignment manifest — fixed-width padding, sequential no-gap/no-reuse numbering, family contiguity, confidentiality endorsement, native slip-sheets, and load-file reconciliation, with a worked example

• Build IRS Form 943/944/945 E-File (94x MeF XML)

  Convert annual payroll or nonpayroll-withholding figures into a Form 943 (agricultural), 944 (small-employer annual), or 945 (nonpayroll/backup withholding) 94x MeF XML — form selection, SS/Medicare for 943/944, income-tax + backup withholding for 945, deposit reconciliation, 943-A/945-A liability schedules, deadlines, and a worked 945 example

• Build ACA 1094-C/1095-C E-File (IRS AIR XML)

  Convert an ALE's health-coverage-offer data into the IRS AIR XML pair (Manifest + Form Data) for Forms 1094-C and 1095-C — Authoritative Transmittal, monthly full-time counts, Line 14/15/16 offer/contribution/safe-harbor codes, self-insured Part III, manifest checksum/count matching, deadlines, and a worked example

• Build E-Prescribing Transaction (NCPDP SCRIPT)

  Convert a prescription into an NCPDP SCRIPT XML transaction (NewRx, renewal, change, cancel, RxFill, ePA, EPCS) — patient/prescriber/pharmacy identifiers (NPI/DEA/SPI/NCPDP ID), NDC/RxNorm drug coding, coded quantity units, structured Sig, EPCS two-factor signing for controlled substances, Surescripts routing, and a worked NewRx example

• Build SEC EDGAR Inline XBRL (iXBRL)

  Convert financial statements into SEC EDGAR Inline XBRL — facts (nonFraction/nonNumeric), contexts (period + entity CIK), units, dimensions (axis/member), scale/sign/decimals, custom-extension anchoring, calculation footing, and DEI cover data per the EDGAR Filer Manual and the current US-GAAP taxonomy, with a worked example

• Screen Against OFAC SDN / Consolidated Sanctions List

  Screen a party list against the OFAC SDN and Consolidated Sanctions lists — ingest the official OFAC XML/CSV/SDN-Advanced files, normalize and fuzzy-match names against primary names and aliases (AKA/FKA), disambiguate with DOB/nationality/ID/vessel-IMO, apply the 50% Rule, and emit scored potential matches with block/reject/clear decisions and a worked example

• Build Production Transmittal Letter

  Convert production-volume metadata into an FRCP 34(b)(2)(E)-compliant production transmittal letter + optional inventory — Bates range tied to responsive RFPs, form of production, custodians/date range, confidentiality designations, redaction/privilege exceptions, FRE 502(d) clawback reservation, delivery terms, and count reconciliation, with a worked example

• Build Production QC Report

  Convert a production volume + load files into a pre-delivery QC report — Bates continuity, three-way count reconciliation, load-file field/OPT-DAT validation, redaction completeness (image + scrubbed text), native-file hash integrity, privilege-log cross-reference, and confidentiality-designation completeness, with blocking pass/fail rules and a worked example

• Build FRCP 26(f) ESI Protocol

  Convert a case data-source inventory and agreed parameters into an FRCP Rule 26(f) ESI protocol — scope, preservation, sources/custodians (incl. not-reasonably-accessible), search methodology and validation (terms/TAR), de-duplication, form of production with metadata field list, FRE 502(d) clawback and privilege-log format, phasing, cost, and dispute resolution, with a worked example

• Build Legal Hold Compliance Report

  Convert legal-hold system data into a custodian compliance and escalation report — acknowledgment aging, overdue and escalation queues, system-hold-vs-acknowledgment tracking, departed-employee at-risk flags, and a timestamped audit trail supporting an FRCP 37(e) reasonable-steps showing, with a worked example

• Build TAR Validation Report

  Convert Technology-Assisted Review (predictive-coding) metrics into a defensibility validation report — methodology narrative, prevalence/richness, training and cutoff, recall with confidence interval, precision, elusion testing on the null set, and a defensibility statement scoped to the ESI protocol, per Da Silva Moore / Rio Tinto and Sedona guidance, with a worked example

• File New-Hire Report

  Convert a newly hired or rehired employee's W-4 dataset into a state new-hire report (CSV or fixed-width) submitted to the state workforce/new-hire reporting agency and forwarded to the National Directory of New Hires, satisfying the federal mandate to report within ~20 days of hire, with a worked example.

• Build Cross-Border Privacy Review Log

  Convert document-review results and production specs into a cross-border privacy review log (CSV/JSON) recording per-document personal-data categories, data-subject jurisdiction, legal basis, minimization applied, and transfer mechanism, flagging documents needing minimization or transfer-mechanism justification before production to a foreign party under GDPR Art. 5(1)(c), CCPA, and HIPAA minimum-necessary. Medium confidence.

• Build Legal Hold Notice Schema

  Convert a custodian list and matter data into a structured litigation-hold record (Microsoft Purview eDiscovery hold JSON or EDRM custodian XML) with delivery-confirmation and acknowledgment audit trail for ingestion by hold-management platforms; the platform-interchange variant of the court-defensible prose notice (see generate-legal-hold-notice). Medium confidence.

• File Beneficial Ownership Information Report (BOIR)

  Convert beneficial-ownership data into a FinCEN Beneficial Ownership Information Report filed through the BOI E-Filing System. LOW confidence: the March 2025 interim final rule exempts US-formed entities, leaving only foreign reporting companies obligated, and the rule remains subject to litigation — verify current status before any filing.

• Build Form 1042-S E-File XML

  Convert US-source FDAP payments to foreign persons into the IRS Form 1042-S electronic file XML — income and exemption codes, chapter 3 vs chapter 4 withholding, treaty rates, recipient TIN rules, and 1042 reconciliation

• Build a NACHA ACH Payment File

  Convert a payment batch into a NACHA-formatted ACH file — 94-character fixed records (1/5/6/7/8/9), PPD/CCD/WEB SEC codes, routing-number check digit, batch/file control totals, and balanced vs unbalanced files

• Build the FATCA Form 8966 XML

  Convert account-holder data into the FATCA Report (Form 8966) XML for IDES — MessageSpec, ReportingFI GIIN, AccountReport with US TIN and balance, pooled and nil reports, and DocSpec DocRefId/CorrDocRefId corrections

• Build a State Sales & Use Tax Return Dataset

  Convert sales data into a state sales/use tax return dataset (JSON) — economic-nexus determination, taxability, district/local rate stacking, marketplace-facilitator deductions, multi-jurisdiction tax, and self-assessed use tax