Heuristica’s, Chief Executive Officer and Senior Counsel, Crystal O’Donnell and Laine McGarragle, Director, Client Services & Counsel are excited to be attending Relativity Fest 2023.
If you want to reach out to meet or chat you can contact them at:
Crystal O’Donnell:codonnell@discoverycounsel.ca
Laine McGarragle:lmcgarragle@discoverycounsel.ca
Looking forward to seeing everyone there!
For more information about Relativity Fest 2023 please visit their web site.
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Director, Review Services and Counsel
August 28, 2023
Civil courts across the country are facing lengthy delays and backlogs. These growing delays increase costs and deny litigants the ability to access timely financial relief and move on with their lives. Indeed, delay is one of three barriers to access to justice specifically noted by Chief Justice Wagner in his 2018 remarks at the 7th National Pro Bono Conference in Vancouver:
It can take a year or more even to get a date for a trial that might last two months. In the meantime, parties suffer financial losses or family disharmony; physical and mental health issues remain unresolved.… Read More
Michael Ross
Associate
Document Dumps May Cost You
A recent decision from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Gowing Contractors Ltd v. Walsh Construction Company Canada, 2023 ONSC 4407, confirms there will be cost consequences to parties whose productions contain a significant proportion of irrelevant records. On a motion for further and better production, the Court considered, inter alia, whether the defendant Walsh had failed to meet its discovery obligations by producing an “astounding 25%” of irrelevant documents.
By way of background, the overall litigation relates to an infrastructure construction project. Walsh was the general contractor, Gowing was Walsh’s mechanical subcontractor, and Zurich Insurance Company Ltd.… Read More
We have moved to a new location.
Our new address is:
Heuristica Discovery Counsel LLP
121 King St. West, Suite 1820
Toronto, Ontario
M5H 3T9
All telephone numbers remain unchanged.
For directions please visit the Contact Us page on our web site.
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Martin Felsky, senior counsel at Heuristica, was recently interviewed by Steven Lerner for a Law360 Pulse article on the potential application of ChatGPT to eDiscovery practice.
Read the full article here.
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