Crystal O’Donnell Elected to Ontario Bar Association Council

We are pleased to congratulate Crystal O’Donnell, founder and CEO of Heuristica Discovery Counsel, on her recent election to the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) Council.

The OBA is a branch of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA), an organization of lawyers formed to provide support by the profession to the profession so that it may render better service to its members and the public. The association provides lawyers with opportunities to become more efficient and effective, to further their professional education and to keep abreast of current developments within the profession, nationally and provincially.

Throughout their two-year term, Council members:

act as ambassadors and liaisons for the OBA within their region
identify issues and opportunities and provide advice to the Board on how to address them
elect the Board of Directors (the decision making body of the Association) each year
are expected to bring forward general and regional issues of importance to members and to the profession, including:
- Identification of issues in the region (practice or professional) that would benefit from OBA advocacy
- Issues related to the operation or administration of the judicial system
- Regional professional development needs
- Issues related to the presence of the Association in the region

For more information about the OBA governance structure please visit their web site here.… Read More

We’ve been Nominated … Please vote now!

We are thrilled to have been nominated for the 2018 Canadian Lawyer Readers’ Choice Awards in these two categories:

Litigation Support & E-Discovery Consultants
Legal Process Outsourcing

This is the fourth year Canadian Lawyer has run their Readers’ Choice Awards. The program is designed to give a voice to their readers to identify which vendors and suppliers are the best at what they do.

Voting is open until June 25th and winners will be announced in a special feature in the October issue of Canadian Lawyer.

Please vote here.

O’Donnell to Speak at CBA Alberta Civil Litigation Section Meeting

Crystal O’Donnell, Heuristica’s CEO and Senior Counsel, will speak at the CBA Alberta Civil Litigation Section (South) meeting in Calgary on June 18th, 2018.

Crystal will join Erin Greenan, Legal Counsel, Nexen and Darren Reed, Partner, Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP to speak about the benefits of e-discovery and the effective management of litigation costs via e-discovery.

For more information about the meeting or to register pleased visit the CBA web site.

Heuristica Leads eDiscovery Workshop at Canadian Corporate Counsel Association National Conference

Heuristica is pleased to sponsor an eDiscovery workshop at the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association (CCCA) National Conference and In-House Counsel Worldwide (ICW) Summit.

The Conference theme this year is Beyond Borders: Business and Law in the Global Village.

Crystal O’Donnell, Heuristica’s CEO and Senior Counsel, will lead a workshop entitled “Successfully Managing E-Discovery – A Primer for In-House Counsel“.

The workshop will cover important questions in-house counsel should be asking themselves including:

What happens when your organization is called on to produce electronically stored information (ESI)?
Do you have a discovery plan and production protocol in place?

Pel and O’Donnell Admitted to Alberta Bar

We are pleased to announce that Crystal O’Donnell, CEO and Senior Counsel, and Brian Pel, COO and Senior Counsel, both were admitted to the bar of the Law Society of Alberta today in a ceremony by Justice Willie deWit at the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta in Calgary.

Crystal and Brian were presented to the Court by Matt Lindsay, Partner of Rose LLP

Photo (L to R): Brian Pel, Matt Lindsay, Crystal O’Donnell.