We’re Hiring eDiscovery Counsel

Job Description We are looking to add several full-time eDiscovery Counsel to our downtown Toronto team.   Offering a competitive compensation and benefits package, candidates must be licensed by, and in good standing with, the Law Society of Ontario and have 5+ years litigation and eDiscovery experience.  Familiarity with Relativity, Ringtail or other leading review platforms and analytical tools is required.  Preferred candidates will also have strong analytical and drafting skills, project management and/or quality control training and experience.   To be considered for this position candidates must submit their resume with a covering letter that summarizes their experience and that details their interest

Heuristica Delivers eDiscovery Course for ILCO

The team at Heuristica Discovery Counsel led by Crystal O’Donnell, CEO and Senior Counsel, will teach the “e -Discovery Advanced Theory & Practices for Litigation Support” course for The Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario (ILCO).   The eight-week course is designed for litigation support professionals and law clerks and explores the legal and practical principles of electronic discovery in a legal practice context.  Using the EDRM and the Sedona Canada Principles, the course provides instruction on the issues and tasks underlying each phase of the eDiscovery process.  Emphasizing proportionality and defensibility at every stage the program includes practical information

Group Seeks to Harmonize Canada’s eDiscovery Rules

Heuristica’s CEO and Senior Counsel, Crystal O’Donnell, is co-chair of a group of lawyers who wish to harmonize court rules for electronic discovery across Canada.    The group, comprised of lawyers from across the country, is drafting a proposal to submit to The Uniform Law Conference of Canada (ULCC).   “One of the biggest challenges right now is the approach across jurisdictions is very ad hoc and patchwork”, says O’Donnell in the December 5th Focus on E-Discovery issue of Law Times.   “For any organization or corporation dealing with litigation in multiple jurisdictions, the rules are very different and some provinces don’t

O’Donnell Appointed to CanLII Board

We’re proud to congratulate Crystal O’Donnell on her appointment to the CanLII Board of Directors   The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) is a non-profit organization that makes Canadian law accessible for free on the Internet.  The Institute is funded by the members of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, namely, the law societies of Canada’s provinces and territories and the Chambre des notaires du Québec.  In effect, CanLII is funded by Canada’s lawyers and notaries.   The full announcement can be found on the CanLII blog.  

Thinking of self-collecting? Don’t forget to consider metadata and cybersecurity.

It is important to take precautions against altering document metadata during collection of data.    Note that metadata will be altered by, for example, collecting the data and then uploading it to a cloud computing service such as Dropbox.  Another potential risk with this approach is cybersecurity – consider that 68 million email addresses and passwords were stolen from Dropbox. There may be justifiable economic reasons for an organization to self-collect, however, one must be cognizant of the potential risks.  

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