Heuristica to Attend RelFest London 2026

Heuristica Discovery Counsel LLP is pleased to share that Crystal O’Donnell and Kelly Friedman will be attending RelFest London 2026, taking place on June 15 and 16.

RelFest London brings together leaders, practitioners, innovators, and technology professionals from across the legal data intelligence and eDiscovery community for two days of education, collaboration, and discussion about the future of legal data practice.

This year’s agenda is particularly timely. Artificial intelligence is moving quickly from discussion to implementation, and legal teams are increasingly being asked to explain how AI-enabled tools are being used, how their outputs are tested, and how technology-assisted workflows can be supervised and justified in a defensible way.… Read More

Rethinking Reliability of Digital Evidence

Kelly Friedman

Partner

April 30, 2026

Digital evidence often looks authoritative. A system-generated report, an email chain, a spreadsheet, or a chat export can appear objective and complete. But in litigation, the real question is not whether digital evidence looks reliable. It is whether its reliability can be proven.

As litigation becomes more data-heavy, and as AI-generated or AI-assisted content becomes more common, the reliability of digital evidence deserves closer attention. A digital record is not trustworthy simply because it looks technical, precise, or system generated. Its reliability depends on the system that created it, the controls that preserved it, and the surrounding information that allows it to be tested.… Read More

Deepfakes and the Evolving Duties of eDiscovery Counsel

Martin Felsky

Senior Counsel

April 28, 2026

The long-standing view that electronic discovery and disclosure can be treated as purely procedural or technical exercises distinct from the law of evidence is no longer tenable. That position was already difficult to sustain in an era of emails and databases. It becomes untenable in the age of synthetic media.

E-discovery (and here I use the term broadly to include disclosure in criminal and regulatory procedure) is about shaping the evidentiary record. What is preserved, collected, filtered, and produced defines what may ultimately be tendered in court. A small but critical subset of that material will be relied upon as evidence.… Read More

Amazon Canada Decision – Ten Lessons to be Learned

Martin Felsky

Senior Counsel

January 20, 2026

Large-scale production orders are no longer exceptional. What is surprising is how often sophisticated litigants underestimate what courts now expect when those orders arrive. The Federal Court’s recent decision in Commissioner of Competition v Amazon.com.ca ULC, 2025 FC 1782, arises in a competition-law investigation under the Competition Act. But it would be a mistake to read it as confined to that regulatory context. The Court’s reasoning reflects expectations that increasingly apply across complex civil litigation, particularly cases involving large-scale electronic production. In substance, this is a decision about modern litigation discipline.… Read More

Heuristica’s Lawyers Recognized by Lexology

Heuristica is pleased to advise that more of its lawyers have again been chosen for inclusion in the 2025 Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) eDiscovery rankings than those of any other Canadian law firm.

The following have been selected:

Thought Leaders – Commercial Litigation – E-Discovery Lawyers 2025
- Martin Felsky, Senior Counsel

National Leaders – Canada – E-Discovery Practitioners 2025
- Crystal O’Donnell, Chief Executive Officer and Senior Counsel
- Martin Felsky, Senior Counsel
- Candice Chan-Glasgow, Director, Review Services and Counsel

The Lexology Index research process starts with qualitative analysis; they gather first-hand experience of working with nominees in the industry or practice area, and ground it with continuous quantitative analysis of a range of relevant data points to ensure a rigorous evaluation framework, consistently applied. … Read More

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