All Things Investigations: Episode 37 – Privileges in Document Production with Mike Huneke
Sitting with the C-Suite: eDiscovery Observations – Historical Lookback to 1990s and 2000s
So you are ready to divorce...what is the process?
Sitting with the C-Suite: In-House Counsel - Leveraging Text Classification to Problem Solve
Video | Tips for Managing the Preservation of Mobile Device Data
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Government Investigative Demands
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)... *Liability and Data Breach Sold Separately
Bien que le secret professionnel de l’avocat remonte au XVIe siècle, le droit relatif aux privilèges continue d’évoluer. Dans le contexte complexe actuel des litiges commerciaux, les privilèges doivent recevoir la plus grande...more
A recent decision from the Supreme Court of British Columbia illustrates how litigants may find themselves in trouble with the court and opposing counsel when they fail to properly preserve and produce electronically stored...more
Please join us for a virtual seminar discussing the judicial treatment of the Sedona Canada Principles with our very own Anatoliy Vlasov of Lindsay LLP. The presentation will touch on such topics as the Principles’ origin,...more
Join the ACEDS Vancouver and Toronto Chapters for a seminar. Please join us for a virtual seminar discussing the judicial treatment of the Sedona Canada Principles with our very own Anatoliy Vlasov of Lindsay LLP. The...more
Update: The Federal Court updated the Guidelines on May 18, 2021, which can be found here. The Federal Court has released a new consolidated practice direction, Case and Trial Management Guidelines for Complex...more
Solicitor-client privilege extends not only to legal advice provided directly to a client, but to the whole "continuum of communications" in which the advice is given, the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench recently confirmed in...more
The world is moving from print toward electronically stored information (ESI), and the legal profession is no exception. Since ESI is discoverable, lawyers must understand the effects ESI can have on their discovery process....more
A Canadian appellate court ruled that a lower court had jurisdictional authority to issue a production order to craigslist based upon its virtual (but not physical) presence in British Columbia. The production order requested...more
Is San Francisco-based Craigslist subject to a third-party production order in criminal proceedings in British Columbia, despite having only a “virtual” presence in the province? The province’s Court of Appeal said yes in a...more
The Supreme Court of Canada held today that civil plaintiffs cannot examine for discovery (aka depose) a Competition Bureau investigator: Canada (Attorney General) v. Thouin, 2017 SCC 46....more
In Bard v. Canadian Natural Resources (Bard), the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta (Court) ruled that certain documents were to be produced in native format, despite what was set out in a discovery agreement between the...more
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) released two decisions last week regarding the power of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to demand production of information and documents, including accounting records, from lawyers and...more
When a regulator comes knocking at your door, with an order compelling the production of documents, how should you treat communications between you and your lawyers? Are you required to produce privileged documents to the...more
The Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench recently released its decision in TransAlta Corporation v. Market Surveillance Administrator (TransAlta v. MSA), ordering TransAlta Corporation (TransAlta) to produce hundreds of documents...more
The Court of Appeal for Ontario’s January 29, 2015 decision in Moore v. Getahun (Moore) has confirmed that there is nothing improper in counsel reviewing a draft report with an expert witness, and that draft expert reports...more