Heuristica’s Lawyers recognized by Who’s Who Legal

We are pleased to announce that more lawyers from Heuristica have been selected for inclusion in the International Who’s Who Legal (WWL) in the eDiscovery categories than any other firm in Canada.

The following lawyers have been selected:

2022 Commercial Litigation – eDiscovery Thought Leaders
- Crystal O’Donnell, Heuristica founder and CEO
- Martin Felsky, Senior Counsel
2022 Commercial Litigation – eDiscovery Global Leaders
- Crystal O’Donnell
- Martin Felsky
- Candice Chan-Glasgow, Director Review Services and Counsel
2022 WWL Legal Canada Directory – Leading eDiscovery Practitioners
- Crystal O’Donnell
- Martin Felsky
- Candice Chan-Glasgow

O’Donnell, Felsky and Chan-Glasgow are recognized for their achievements alongside only 24 other lawyers and 4 eDiscovery experts in Canada.… Read More

Preservation Obligations may change with new Auto-Expiration of Teams Meeting Recordings

Candice Chan-Glasgow

Director, Review Services and Counsel

February 7, 2022

Parties to anticipated litigation should be mindful of announced changes to the auto-expiration of Teams recordings and their preservation obligations once litigation is reasonably anticipated.

In July 2021, Microsoft announced the initial development of a new auto-expiration feature on Microsoft Teams meeting recordings stored on OneDrive and Sharepoint. On January 31, 2022, Microsoft announced that the default auto-expiration period for Teams recordings will increase to 120 days from the previously announced 60 days.

New recordings will be set to automatically expire 120 days after they are recorded if no action is taken.… Read More

Chan-Glasgow Moderates Panel at Ontario Digital Evidence & eDiscovery Institute

Candice Chan-Glasgow, Director, Review Services and Counsel, will moderate a panel at the upcoming Ontario Digital Evidence and eDiscovery Institute webcast in Toronto on November 22nd.

Now in its 11th year, this program is jointly sponsored by the Ontario Bar Association, the Law Society of Ontario and The Advocates’ Society. Bringing together leading experts to get attendees up to speed on the latest developments in eDiscovery and digital evidence this year’s program will focus on a case study involving a litigation matter between an individual litigant and a large corporation.

The stellar faculty will share perspectives of both sides to the litigation and highlight the key issues and challenges that the litigants will face as they navigate the eDiscovery process. … Read More

eDiscovery Preparedness – Review Technology

Candice Chan-Glasgow

Director, Review Services and Counsel

October 4, 2021

The discovery process is typically the most time-consuming and expensive aspect of any legal dispute. Fortunately, by adopting appropriate technology and best practices, parties can achieve significant cost savings in the review process. This article will outline functionality that is available and should be used in every discovery project involving electronic evidence.

Email Threading

Email threading is now considered a basic tool that should be employed on every discovery project. Email threading groups the conversation that happens back and forth in email and identifies the “end points” (or “inclusive emails”). … Read More

Chan-Glasgow contributes to international eDiscovery book

Candice Chan-Glasgow, Director, Review Services and Counsel, has contributed to the Canada chapter of the 2nd edition of International E-Discovery, A Global Handbook of Law and Technology.

Published by Globe Law and Business in association with Legalink, the second edition of International E-Discovery, provides an analysis from across the globe of the different approaches to, and cutting-edge techniques in the use of, digital evidence in legal and regulatory contexts.

Leading technology specialists and legal practitioners in different jurisdictions come together to explain the latest developments in how digital evidence is collected, interrogated and deployed in response to legal proceedings, regulatory investigations, and in order to comply with organizational requirements.… Read More