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Legal Data Intelligence

The LDI model covers all manner of use cases that invite the application of legal data analytics expertise.

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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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Going to Relativity Fest 2023!

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.

Document Production Disputes Exacerbate Access to Justice Challenges in Canada

Candice Chan-Glasgow 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

Document Dumps May Cost You

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,

We’ve Moved!

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.

ChatGPT’s Seat at the E-Discovery Table Isn’t Clear, Yet

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.