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Mike Lipkin, President, Environics/Lipkin is one of Canada’s preeminent speakers. The distinctions that he has gathered from talking to a million people from forty-three countries, along with insights from the Environics social values research, is how he can offer a powerful blend of ideas, principles, and observations that help achieve preeminence one conversation at a time.
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Ian Campbell, Chief Operating Officer, iCONECT Development LLC is the co-founder of iCONECT Development and has been developing an implementing new technologies and tactical strategies in the litigation support arena for over a decade. He is often engaged as a consultant on major international legal projects and is frequently requested as a keynote speaker, sharing his thoughts, ideas, and experiences with audiences for the American Bar Association, LegalTech, ILTA, AIIM, EDRM, and other legal and management groups around the world. At iCONECT, his current focus is expanding the market for iCONECT solutions through strategic alliances and partner integrations.
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Peter Coons, Senior Vice President, D4 manages the day-to-day operations of D4, which provides computer forensics and electronic discovery services. He has 14 years of experience in legal technology including orchestrating large scale electronic collections relating to litigation, audits, or regulatory requests, media restoration, processing and production of electronic data, and various forensic and litigation support tools. He has testified as a computer forensic expert witness and has been appointed by a Federal District Court as a neutral third party forensic examiner. Peter is an EnCase Certified Examiner, an AccessData Certified Examiner, a Certified Computer Examiner (computer forensic certificates) and is a member of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) – the professional organization for persons involved in computer forensics.
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Rachael Chadwick, Senior E-Discovery Analyst & Project Manager, Wortzman Nickle manages e-discovery projects and provides litigation support to law firms and corporations. Prior to joining Wortzman Nickle, Rachael practiced for 11 years at one of Canada’s leading litigation law firms where she pioneered a litigation support role and spearheaded an e-discovery committee. Rachael’s interest in e-discovery sparked at Commonwealth Legal’s first litigation support conference held in 2004 and her passion for e-discovery continues to this day.
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Michael Condé, National Director of Litigation Support, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP is responsible for managing litigation support and eDiscovery services across 5 offices of the firm. He has provided a wide range of litigation support and legal technology services to law firms and corporate law departments – both in-house and as a consultant – in Canada and the U.K. for over 25 years. He has set up litigation support departments, implemented discovery workflows and best practices, and overseen the evaluation, implementation, use and management of a wide variety of litigation support and evidence management software programs.
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Martin Felsky PhD, JD is an eDiscovery Legal Technology Consultant, expert and lawyer who helps clients manage their valuable information resources in compliance with Canadian laws, rules and standards of eDiscovery, records management, security and privacy.
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Suzan Mitchell-Scott, Litigation Support Manager, Blake Cassells & Graydon LLP is very knowledgeable in eDiscovery and the various protocols that affect the litigation process. She assists with the development of protocols to meet the requirements of the Litigation Group and IT Department. She consults on the management of documentary databases involving paper and electronic documents. As the Litigation Support Manager for the Litigation Group, Suzan oversees the technology needs of the department.
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Patrick Murphy, Partner, Donnelly & Murphy, Barristers & Solicitors is a Certified Specialist in Civil Litigation and has appeared at all levels of Court in the Province of Ontario. He is a Past Director of The Advocate’s Society and a Past Executive member of the Ontario Bar Association.
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Michelle Nash, President, M. Nash Consulting is a senior litigation law clerk and consultant specializing in document intensive litigation. Michelle works with litigation teams and their clients to manage evidence in a defensible manner from case inception to trial, and is highly experienced in implementing technology in the legal process. Michelle’s experience both as a law clerk and as a technologist (with certifications in various applications) allows her to play an active role in liaising between the courts, legal teams and IT staff to apply best practices.
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Dera Nevin, Senior Director Litigation Support Services, McCarthy Tétrault LLP is responsible for administering all e-Discovery and electronic evidence management initiatives across the firm. A practicing lawyer, Ms. Nevin is also counsel to the firm and its clients on matters of e-Discovery and electronic evidence law and procedure and associated privacy law, international law relating to the production and exchange of evidence, and local documentary production requirements.
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Karen Ruocco, Electronic Discovery Project Manager, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP New York has nearly 20 years of litigation and technology experience. She joined Sullivan & Cromwell in 2008 where she now manages the entire eDiscovery process for multiple complex litigation and investigative matters.
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Glenn Smith, Senior Partner, Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP is one of the five founding partners of the firm and has a varied commercial litigation practice, with an emphasis on class actions and complex insurance litigation. He is recognized as a guru in eDiscovery in Canada and was on the Ontario Task Force for implementing the Ontario e-Discovery Guidelines. He is currently on the Editorial Board of Sedona Canada which drafted the Sedona Canada Principles addressing Electronic Discovery in Canada. He has lectured and written on directors and officer’s liability, class actions, eDiscovery and insurance law.
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Carla Swansburg, Senior Counsel, RBC Law Group manages complex litigation involving Royal Bank Financial Group and many of its subsidiaries throughout the world, including RBC’s network of International Wealth Management offices throughout the US, Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Carla handles commercial claims and class actions relating to fraud, banking, securities, breach of trust among other matters. She frequently leads or supports internal investigations including multijurisdictional matters and advises business partners on litigation risks, and leads RBC’s e-Discovery planning and initiatives. Carla frequently speaks on topics such as ADR, privilege, litigation management, eDiscovery and managing the costs of legal services. Carla is the Past President of the Ontario Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel.
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Melanie Schweizer, Senior Legal Counsel, Bell Canada/BCE practices commercial litigation consisting of both supervising outside counsel and handling litigation matters in-house (including class actions). Prior to joining Bell, Melanie practiced commercial litigation with an emphasis on class actions at a litigation boutique in Toronto. Melanie has handled electronic discovery in the context of files handled both in-house and by external counsel and has spoken extensively on matters related to electronic discovery. Melanie is a member of Sedona Working Group 7 and is a member of the steering committee of Sedona Canada.
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Jason Woycheshyn, Associate, Bennett Jones LLP has co-authored several conference papers relating to litigation matters and has been published in the Annual Review of Civil Litigation and the National Banking Law Review. As a former lawyer with the Edmonton office of Bennett Jones, he acted as defence counsel in numerous medical malpractice trials, including compromised baby cases. His litigation practice includes corporate/commercial litigation, securities litigation, estate litigation, health law and professional negligence disputes.
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