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.

BCLMA and ILTA Host eDiscovery Workshop in Vancouver

We are pleased to sponsor a BC Legal Management Association (BCLMA) and International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) joint session entitled “Best Practices for Implementing New Technologies in eDiscovery”.

Hosted by the Vancouver office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Crystal O’Donnell, Heuristica’s Founder and CEO, will present a lunch session on new technologies in eDiscovery on Tuesday, May 15 at noon.

Advances in technology enable parties to conduct discovery without relying on traditional linear or ‘eyes-on’ review models. Crystal will discuss best practices and emerging case law for implementing technology to successfully manage ediscovery in a defensible, proportionate and cost-effective manner. … Read More

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.