Heuristica Voted as Leaders in E-Discovery Software/Solutions

Heuristica has been selected by the readers of Canadian Lawyer magazine as a leader in E-Discovery Software/Solutions.

Canadian Lawyer recently announced the winners of the 2024 Readers’ Choice Awards which are designed to allow its readers to identify which products and service providers are the best in class.

Readers cast their votes on 586 products and service providers, encompassing cloud-based practice management and e-discovery software, medico-legal expert witnesses, litigation funding, time and billing solutions, commercial real estate tenant representation, and practice area-specific software. The top vote-getters in each category were declared winners, with ties reflected in some categories.… 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 2024 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 2024
- Crystal O’Donnell, CEO and Senior Counsel
- Martin Felsky, Senior Counsel

National Leaders – Canada – E-Discovery Practitioners 2024
- Crystal O’Donnell, CEO and Senior Counsel
- Candice Chan-Glasgow, Director, Review Services and Counsel
- Martin Felsky, Senior Counsel
- Kelly Friedman, Chief Legal Data Intelligence Officer and Senior Counsel

These selections are particularly meaningful as two of the nine Canadian lawyers selected as Thought Leaders and four of the 22 Canadian lawyers selected as National Leaders are Heuristica counsel.… Read More

Heuristica Sponsors The Advocates’ Society Fall Convention

Once again, we are pleased to be a Sponsor of The Advocates’ Society Annual Fall Convention.

This year the Society’s marquee conference is being held November 13th to 17th at the Rosewood Baha Mar in the Bahamas where attendees will enjoy collegiality and thought-provoking CPD in an incredible setting.

As always, the Fall Convention will offer an exceptional CPD program with sessions and panel discussions such as:

Just Can’t Get Enough: Year in Review
Master and Servant?: Balancing the Burden and Privilege of an Independent Bar
Enjoy the Silence: What are We Doing About Access to Justice?
People are People: Managing Generational Change
Policy of Truth: The Role of the Advocate
The Things You Said: Advocacy and the Role of AI
Barrel of a Gun: Litigation Under Pressure/Litigating in the Public Eye

The keynote presentation, Blasphemous Rumours, will be presented by Professor Randy Boyagoda, Vice-Dean, University of Toronto, Provostial Advisor on Civil Discourse.… Read More

Kelly Friedman to Speak at ADRIC 2024 National Conference.

Kelly Friedman, Heuristica’s Chief Legal Data Intelligence Officer and Senior Counsel, is a featured speaker at the ADRIC 2024 National Conference and will present Reimagining Redfern 25 Years Later. This session will discuss developments in the law and technology and provide practical suggestions on how the Redfern process can be reimagined to continue to meet its underlying principles.

Join us in Toronto on October 24th for the 50th AGM and Annual National Conference! Together leaders from the ADR sector, organizations and government from across the country will provide attendees with inspiring, innovative and interactive plenary, keynotes, hands-on workshops, comprehensive panel discussions and great networking opportunities

Crystal O’Donnell, Chief Executive Officer and Senior Counsel at Heuristica and Chief Executive Officer, iJudicate will be moderating the session.… Read More

Heuristica Welcomes Karthik Das

We are thrilled to announce that Karthik Das is joining the Heuristica partnership!

Karthik has over 20 years of experience supporting and leading eDiscovery in civil litigation, class actions, regulatory enforcement, quasi-criminal prosecutions and freedom of information requests. Prior to joining HDC/HDS, Karthik was Senior Legal Counsel for the Digital Enforcement & Analytics (DE&A) Unit of the Ontario Securities Commission and Crown Counsel for the Crown Law Office – Civil at the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, where in addition to eDiscovery, he also provided leadership and support to full service, end-to-end, deployment of computer and mobile device forensics, crypto intelligence analysis, advanced legal analytics, evidence management and open-source intelligence (OSINT) gathering.… Read More