Three New Associates Further Strengthen Legal Review Team

We are pleased to welcome three new full time associates to the firm to help meet the needs of a rapidly growing client base and eDiscovery work from across Canada.

The addition of Fahriz Dosani, Vlad Strashko and Ilan Tsekhman brings significant eDiscovery experience to the firm. Working with Candice Chan-Glasgow, the firm’s Director of Review Services, the new associates measurably strengthen Heuristica’s full time team of eDiscovery counsel.

Please feel free to reach out to us to see how we can assist with your eDiscovery needs.

Fahriz Dosani Vlad Strashko Ilan Tsekhman

From Lemonade Stand to Heuristica Discovery Counsel

Pamela Fontaine-Peters

Director, Litigation Support and Senior Law Clerk

I am thrilled to be an “official” member of the team at Heuristica Discovery Counsel in my new role of Director of Litigation Support.

I’ve worked in the legal industry for almost 25 years as a law clerk, certified trainer and eDiscovery consultant. Working at Heuristica allows me to use all of my technical skills and draw on my clerking experience. I look forward to meeting the challenges of this exciting position.

I have always loved technology. I was introduced to computers in public school playing a computer card program called Lemonade Stand. … Read More

Heuristica Celebrates First Anniversary with Expanded Team

Heuristica Discovery Counsel is celebrating its first anniversary and thanks to an extremely successful first year is pleased to announce the addition of two key positions at the firm.

With the addition of several major new clients Heuristica recently has recruited Alan Dingle and Keith Bedford.

Alan and Keith bring relevant expertise and experience to meet the increasingly sophisticated needs of the market and our clients. The two new positions enable Heuristica to continue its expansion and ensure that it continues to exceed client expectations.

Alan Dingle joins Heuristica as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. … Read More

Update: EU-US Privacy Shield Faces Sharp Criticism

In March, we discussed the proposed EU-US Privacy Shield in our blog.

At the time, the EU and US had just reached an agreement in principle and the European Commission (EC) released a draft “adequacy decision” regarding the proposed framework. The Privacy Shield is a regulatory framework designed to enable US companies to comply with strict EU digital privacy laws. It replaces the invalidated “Safe Harbour” agreement.

In the intervening months, several EU institutions expressed dissatisfaction with the proposed Privacy Shield. On April 13^th, the Article 29 Working Party published a critical opinion stating that the EC had overlooked “key data protection principles”.… Read More

New EU-US Privacy Shield

On February 2, 2016, the European Commission announced that it had reached an agreement in principle with the United States on a new framework for data transfers.

This new EU-US Privacy Shield is necessary because of the October 2015 Court of Justice of the European Union decision which invalidated the Safe Harbour arrangement (discussed in further depth in this previous article).

On February 29, 2016, the European Commission released a draft “adequacy decision” and the legal text for the new agreement. The adequacy decision establishes that the safeguards under the Privacy Shield will offer equivalent data protection standards to those in place in the EU.… Read More