Heuristica Sponsors Legal Research Award

Heuristica is pleased to announce its sponsorship of an annual award at the University of Calgary Law School for the best legal research paper in the School’s Law 693 undergraduate E-Litigation course.

Heuristica congratulates the School, Dean Ian Holloway and Professor Gideon Christian for their initiative in establishing this important course — a first for a Canadian law school. The course provides students with hands-on training designed to familiarize them with technologies relevant to litigating in a digital environment, including artificial intelligence technologies used in e-discovery document review.

Heuristica, with offices in Toronto and Calgary is Canada’s only national law firm that specializes solely in electronic evidence and complex document review. … Read More

O’Donnell Presents at Advocates’ Society CPD Session on Documentary Production

Crystal O’Donnell, Heuristica’s Founder & CEO, will participate in a webinar sponsored by The Advocates’ Society on Documentary Production: What you Need to Prove Your Case.

Join us on February 15 for a session on Documentary Production: What You Need to Prove Your Case. You will discover best practices for drafting requests, gathering documents, responding strategically to the other side’s request, and managing a client through the process. Leading litigators will share their top tips for navigating the strategic and ethical considerations of production issues, while adjudicators get candid about what they want to see—and what they do not want to see—in submissions for orders.… Read More

O’Donnell Presents at the CBA Public Sector Lawyers Section

Crystal O’Donnell, Heuristica’s Founder & CEO, will speak at the CBA Public Sector Lawyers Section online event, Risk Management for Electronic Evidence in the Government Context.

Electronic evidence creates different risks than traditional paper based evidence, particularly with costs and privilege issues. This session will discuss the risks and provide suggestions for minimizing and managing risk relating to electronic evidence. Counsel will discuss how the case law is developing across Canada and the unique challenges faced by the public sector.

For information about this event or to register online please go to the CBA web site.

Heuristica Sponsors the OBA Webcast Avoiding Pitfalls in Common Interest Privilege

Heuristica is pleased to sponsor the OBA Webcast Avoiding Pitfalls in Common Interest Privilege

Join this webcast and get updated on the latest developments in the law of common interest privilege so that you can be certain your client’s privilege will not be inadvertently waived. At this interactive session, attendees will hear real life descriptions and analysis of how common interest privilege has been challenged, lost, and/or protected and

what counsel could have done to better protect it.

Program speakers are:

Maureen Littlejohn, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP (Toronto)

Natalia Rodriguez, Conway Baxter Wilson LLP (Ottawa)

Alexander Gay, Department of Justice Canada (Ottawa)

For information about the webcast, or to register, please visit the CBA web site.… Read More

Heuristica Congratulates Harry Chang on Relativity Certification

Heuristica is pleased to congratulate Harry Chang, Associate, on passing the Relativity Review Management Specialist exam.

The Relativity Review Management Specialist certification demonstrates a review manager’s ability to monitor and review team efficiency and accuracy, streamline review processes and report on the status of document reviews.

Both the legal and technical teams at Heuristica have achieved distinction as being amongst the most highly certified RelativityOne organizations in the world. Multiple Relativity certifications have been achieved for the following:

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