O’Donnell Presents at the Yazidi Genocide Survivors’ Conference

Crystal O’Donnell, Heuristica’s Founder & CEO, will participate in a panel discussion on Documenting Crimes and Collecting Evidence at the Yazidi Genocide Survivors’ Conference to be held in Amsterdam on January 26, 2024.

Crystal’s leadership extends to her role as Chair of a Uniform Law Conference of Canada Working Group seeking to create common electronic evidence standards across all Canadian courts and tribunals.

While exploring themed topics, the true heart of the conference lies in the voices, needs, and opinions of Yazidi survivors.

Joining Crystal on the panel: Catherine van Kampen, Senior Counsel, Yazidi Genocide Survivor, Anne Van Dooren, Dutch Public Prosecutor International Crimes, Andreas Kleiser, Director of Policy and Cooperation, ICMP.… Read More

Happy New Year!

From everyone at Heuristica we wish our colleagues, clients, families, and friends a healthy, happy and prosperous new year.

Happy New Year!

Happy Holidays from the Heuristica Team

At this time of year we look forward to spending time with family and friends and want to wish you and yours peace of mind and goodwill.

This holiday season Heuristica is pleased to contribute to Holiday Helpers by providing Christmas gifts for a family in need. Holiday Helpers’ mission is to provide a customized Christmas package to families with young children who are living in low-income situations. Each sponsored family receives an artificial tree, decorations, a gift card for a warm meal and presents from their personalized wish list.

For the fifth year our Office Manager, Annalee O’Donnell, coordinated our contribution to Holiday Helpers.… Read More

Heuristica’s Lawyers recognized by Who’s Who Legal

Heuristica is pleased to advise that several of its lawyers have again been chosen for inclusion in the 2023 International and Canada Who’s Who Legal (WWL) Directories:

The following have been selected:

Thought Leaders – Commercial Litigation – eDiscovery Lawyers 2023
- Crystal O’Donnell, Heuristica Founder and CEO
- Martin Felsky, Senior Counsel

National Leaders – Canada – eDiscovery Practitioners 2023
- Crystal O’Donnell
- Martin Felsky
- Candice Chan-Glasgow, Director, Review Services and Counsel

O’Donnell, Felsky and Chan-Glasgow are recognized for their achievements alongside only 22 other lawyers in Canada.

These selections are particularly meaningful as two of the seven people selected as Thought Leaders and three of the 25 people selected as National Leaders in Canada are from Heuristica.… Read More

Issues in the Recovery of eDiscovery Costs

Candice Chan-Glasgow

Director, Review Services and Counsel

October 25, 2023

A recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice illustrates the advantage of having eDiscovery counsel assist parties to understand costs implications and how to claim and oppose eDiscovery costs. In Bellsam Contracting Limited v. Torgerson, 2023 ONSC 5652 (CanLII), the defendants sought to recover certain of their eDiscovery-related costs and costs of preparing those costs submissions.

With respect to the eDiscovery costs, the defendants sought partial indemnity for time spent by an “eDiscovery Specialist” who downloaded the plaintiff’s productions, managed the production load files, added documents to the eDiscovery database, and performed quality control checks.… Read More