O’Donnell Speaks at Relativity Fest in Chicago

Crystal O’Donnell, Heuristica’s CEO and Senior Counsel, is a featured speaker at Relativity Fest 2019 in Chicago and will present Reimagining Review: Disrupting Traditional Models.

Technological changes can have a substantial impact on business models and client expectations. In her session, Crystal will discuss how Relativity and RelativityOne can be used to fundamentally disrupt traditional review strategies and business models—ultimately providing tremendous opportunities for law firms and corporate legal departments.

Attendees will also learn how to maintain control over one of the most important aspects of litigation and disclosure, reduce the cost of e-discovery, and provide clients with a better work product. … Read More

Martin Felsky joins Heuristica Discovery Counsel LLP

We are pleased to announce that Martin Felsky has joined the firm as Senior Counsel.

For over 30 years Martin has been sought out as a technology transformation advisor to law firms, governments, courts and corporations around the world. Martin is so well known for his work that the International Who’s Who Legal Directory has referred to him as “the Dean of eDiscovery lawyers in Canada” on more than one occasion.

Martin is perhaps the most experienced eDiscovery lawyer in Canada and was involved in drafting the Ontario eDiscovery Guidelines, the Sedona Canada Principles, and is currently active on the Ontario Digital Evidence and eDiscovery Working Group and The Sedona Conference Canada Working Group 7. … Read More

We’ve been nominated again … please vote now!

We are very pleased to be nominated again for the Canadian Lawyer Readers’ Choice Awards.

This year we are proud to be nominated in the following categories:

Litigation Support & E-Discovery Consultants
Legal Process Outsourcing / Managed Document Review

This is the fifth year Canadian Lawyer has run their Readers’ Choice Awards. The program is designed to give a voice to their readers to identify which vendors and suppliers are the best at what they do.

Voting is open until July 9th and winners will be unveiled in a special feature in the November/December issue of Canadian Lawyer.… Read More

Leveraging Concept Clustering in eDiscovery

Candice Chan-Glasgow, Director, Review Services and Counsel, and Catia Amorim, Associate

March 4, 2019

Even after de-duplication and some initial culling, it’s not unusual to still be faced with a significant number of electronic records in a given litigation matter.

Tools that help lawyers to “make sense” of a plethora of data and that assist in identifying key records are thus increasingly crucial to efficient and effective eDiscovery. Fortunately, it’s possible to organize your electronic data into smaller buckets of conceptually similar documents. One of the analytic tools that makes this possible is called “concept clustering”.… Read More

Heuristica opens Western Canada office in Calgary … Calgary Herald writes article.

We are very excited to open our Western Canada office in Calgary.

CEO, Founder and Senior Counsel, Crystal O’Donnell, and COO and Senior Counsel, Brian Pel, are interviewed by David Parker for an article in today’s Calgary Herald.

Parker says “On the 16th floor of Selkirk House, an etched sign on a door announces the opening of Heuristica Discovery Counsel LLP, a company founded in Toronto to accelerate the use of digital technologies in the practise of law, focusing on the application of litigation software.

CEO Crystal O’Donnell and COO Brian Pel have been spending a lot of their time here organizing the space and hiring local staff. … Read More