Heuristica Discovery Counsel LLP

HEURISTICA DISCOVERY COUNSEL LLP, a law firm with offices in Toronto and Calgary, provides electronic evidence-related consulting and legal services, as well as RelativityOne, the world's leading SaaS-based document review platform. Heuristica was born out of the recognition that technology has drastically changed in recent years and that the way legal data is analyzed must evolve with it. Highly trained in data intelligence and law, Heuristica's teams are more efficient and provide greater value to clients than traditional non-law firm service providers. Moreover, as a law firm. Heuristica's provision of legal services is cloaked with solicitor client privilege and subject to fiduciary obligations.

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Heuristica has demonstrable core expertise in the electronic evidence and discovery aspects of a very wide range of files, including complex criminal and regulatory investigations, commercial and construction matters, insurance defense, class actions, securities law matters, contractual claims, and competition law proceedings. Its Early Case Assessment team is comprised of seasoned senior litigators with extensive data search expertise. Heuristica believes its clients should have unlimited access to all analytic functionality available in RelativityOne at no additional per cost over and above monthly licencing fees. Heuristica also provides Legal Data Intelligence (LDI) insight, pushing the envelope in the application of data analytics to all areas of legal decision making, and beyond its traditional narrow focus on eDiscovery. LDI consulting provides solutions for analysis of huge data volumes which impact legal decision-making across business units and needs. In addition to dispute resolution, legal data analytics provides business value in areas such as internal investigations, corporate transactions, data subject access requests, data and privacy breach responses, regulatory compliance, freedom of information and similar requests. Heuristica’s LDI practice reflects the changing scope of electronic information and its role in optimizing legal and business decisions.

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Law firms and their clients are increasingly seeking heightened eDiscovery/data analytics/document review expertise, efficiencies, and creative, cost-effective results. Discovery is frequently the most expensive component of litigation and, given heightening data volumes, that’s even more the case. Heuristica has pioneered an iterative approach to document review that is both more effective and considerably less expensive than traditional linear approaches, and which combines the various search and analytic functionalities available in RelativityOne, including Active Learning. The success of Heuristica’s iterative review model is based upon full use of analytics by experienced counsel and data search analysts. Heuristica's team develops an in-depth understanding of not only the facts of the case, but litigation counsel’s theory of the case and litigation strategy. This assists in creating targeted searches for critical documents which support or contradict counsel’s theory of the case.

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Heuristica’s iterative approach to document review provides a unique offering that combines legal analytical skills with advanced search methodology resulting in rapid review speeds, lower costs, and superior document organization. The firm's core team of full-time associates is highly trained in the use of document review technology. An important and key differential with Heuristica’s approach is that its team of legal review counsel is highly trained in advanced search technology and analytics and the creation and implementation of layered search strategies. This combination of legal analytical skills and advanced search methodology skills results in a team that can assess and implement analytics and search methodologies while at the same time considering the substance and legal relevance of the data and search results. The advantage in having a legal review team trained to use search technology is that large volumes of non-relevant or marginally important information can be quickly eliminated and with confidence in the defensibility of the process and technology. Heuristica counsel can also respond iteratively to the search results and modify search approaches to achieve greater accuracy and consistency across concepts and similar documents. As a law firm, Heuristica can also provide opinions on the defensibility of its document searching strategies.