Heuristica Discovery Counsel to Participate in Weir Foulds’ “Tools for Success” Construction Webinar Series

On Thursday, March 23^rd, Crystal O’Donnell, Heuristica’s CEO and Senior Counsel, will be speaking with Krista Chaytor and Jeff Scorgie of Weir Foulds’ Construction Law Practice Group on dealing efficiently and cost effectively with increasingly large volumes of documents in construction litigation.

“Tools for Success”, now in its fifth season, is a popular webinar series that seeks to highlight and discuss recent changes and developments that impact the construction industry.

To learn more about this webinar, or to register, go to the Weir Foulds’ web site.

Heuristica Discovery Counsel, with offices in Toronto and Calgary, is Canada’s only national law firm that limits its practice to electronic evidence management and cutting edge document review. … Read More

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 to see—in submissions for orders.… Read More

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 of the Premier’s direction that the review be conducted.… Read More

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.

Tune in to an EDRM Podcast featuring Crystal O’Donnell

Tune in to the EDRM Global Podcast Network and listen to an interview/conversation with our Founder and CEO Crystal O’Donnell.

As part of the EDRM’s (Electronic Discovery Reference Model) educational content program, the organization produces and hosts an extensive series of podcasts to help eDiscovery practitioners improve their overall acumen.

Part of the EDRM Podcast Network is Illumination Zone. Hosted by Mary Mack, EDRM’s CEO and Chief Legal Technologist, and Kaylee Walstad, Chief Strategy Officer, Illumination Zone is a series of interviews and discussions with global leaders in eDiscovery and adjacent disciplines.

Click here to tune in to Crystal’s interview and discussion about her career path to eDiscovery and current issues and trends in Canada.… Read More