Dominic Jaar was recently quoted in a Law Times article titled “E-discovery sector has room to grow”. The article provides a quick overview of the Canadian E-discovery industry. This particular sector of legal services is still at a young age, characterized by a naturally-occurring specialization of the firms within the various steps of the E-discovery reference model. Ledjit Consulting, for instance, mainly specializes in the first steps of the EDRM model, namely information management and document identification – although it can also offer courtroom electronic documents presentation services, at the other end of the model. Dominic Jaar also comments on the changing role of lawyers: in order to be as efficient as their clients will expect them to be, they will have to master technologies. He gives the example of document reviewing, currently done in a linear fashion. With proper use of the adequate technologies and methods, such an operation will be made a lot quicker and involve less legal staff. He concludes saying,

“that really means understanding the technology and not only understanding the process of e-discovery, which is what we see in the market right now. Lawyers know the Sedona Principles, they know what they need to do next but they don’t know how to do it. So that’s a set of skills I think needs to be developed in the Canadian market.”

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