eDiscovery Counsel

Heuristica Discovery Counsel is a boutique legal practice focused on electronic discovery, evidence management, and related litigation and legal services.

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Leading You Through the Legal Complexities of eDiscovery

We are Canada’s premier law firm practicing in electronic discovery, evidence management, and related litigation and legal services. Our winning, innovative solutions save you and your clients time and money.

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Lawyers Specializing in Evidence Analysis

We are a law firm providing legal analysis of your electronic evidence. We also can provide legal opinions on the defensibility and proportionality of your discovery process.

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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

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

Is it Really Possible to Accurately Review Close to a Million Emails Over a Weekend?

Heuristica Discovery Counsel February 6, 2023 Q: Is it really possible to accurately review close to a million emails over a weekend? A: It depends. In connection with an ongoing controversy about alleged inappropriate emails sent from the Premier’s office to the provincial prosecutorial service (ACPS), the Alberta government recently confirmed that it had identified emails from over 900+ email accounts and caused almost one million emails to be searched by provincial government employees in an effort to establish that the alleged emails had not been sent. All this was said to have occurred within three/four days

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