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Dominic Jaar quoted in The Lawyers Weekly on Microsoft Office 2010

Francois Senecal — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:31:40 +0000

Dominic Jaar shared his thoughts on Microsoft Office 2010 in The Lawyers Weekly magazine. The article in question asks lawyers, “Should you upgrade to Microsoft Office 2010 now?“.
Dominic makes two general notes on the usability and functionality of the 2010 version of the Office suite, namely, on the “Conversations” organization of emails in Outlook and the so-called “real-time” collaboration in Workplace. However, two sets of remarks are of particular interest for lawyers. The first is the difficulty of access to metadata: “metadata is important, it should be up front”. A second important remark is about the possibility to use the Office suite online and storing documents in the cloud: if the information is of confidential nature, “unless the cloud they use is in Canada”, Dominic has some reluctance to use such a service.

Ledjit employees recognised as Leading E-Discovery Experts

Dominic Jaar — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:45:07 +0000

Lawday lists many of Ledjit’s employees as leading experts in e-discovery. While we’re quite please with this listing, we’re uncertain about how it has been put together: Most of the other companies have administrative staff listed as opposed to their strategic and delivery people…

Welcome to the eRecords Academy for Corporate Counsel

Dominic Jaar — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:13:33 +0000

Full-house at the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association (”CCCA”) eRecords Academy for Corporate Counsel! Ledjit will be blogging live to provide its clients who could not attend with the relevant content.

Paul Ouellette welcomed the attendees and introduce Dominic Jaar for the opening remarks. Here is the draft address:

Introduction

Good morning
1. Good news about Hockey: Canada Beats U.S. 16-2 – in Kandahar
Thanks CCCA and Paul Ouellette for
1. organizing the conference and
2. giving Ledjit the opportunity to set the agenda
Thanks Rob Gerbrandt and Bonnie North for putting the conference together
Recognize the time given by speakers to prepare and attend;
1. plus travel (from East to West, South and …
Attendees
1. Many clients
2. Individuals representing organizations who share Ledjit’s views re the importance of IM in this information era to:
  1. i. Increase efficiency and productivity
  2. ii. Ensure good governance
  3. iii. Manage risks
  4. iv. Improve compliance
  5. v. Reduce costs and burden
Objectives of the conference
1. Create an opportunity for in-house counsels to exchange with IM and e-discovery experts
2. Assess the gap between best practices and existing initiatives in organizations doing business in Canada
3. Hear the perspectives of the different stakeholders on the new informational landscape:
  1. i. Archivist and record manager
  2. ii. IT/IS
  3. iii. Lawyer, paralegal, lit support
  4. iv. Judges (Justice Colin Campbell)
Invite you to make it an interactive session where
1. good and bad experiences can be shared;
2. there is no such thing as stupid questions;
  1. i. Like in Vegas and with the Sedona Conference: “what is said at the eRecords Academy stays here!”
3. You have a group of knowledgeable speakers and world-renown professionals:
  1. i. Use and Abuse from them!