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productivity hit when team members get taken away from their
regular responsibilities.
Nickle offers this list of people
who can help respond to litigation: in-house counsel, external
counsel, records manager, security and compliance people, IT.
“At least one person inter-
nally must speak e-discovery,”
Jaar notes.
Collection procedures
It might seem cheaper, but
companies may want to avoid
the do-it-yourself approach to
collection.
DIY collectors often uninten-
tionally modify metadata like
the creation data, modification
date and author name. Such
changes can drive up the overall
cost of discovery.
Jaar would like more lawyers
to use up-to-date defensible document review technologies. “We
still see lawyers doing linear
review at a really steep cost to the
client,” Jaar says, adding that 80
per cent of e-discovery costs come
from document review.
“If lawyers still review documents one at a time, discovery
won’t be any cheaper even if the
client is litigation-ready.” n
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banning multiple marriage in a
November ruling.
“We took a principled pos-
ition around the use of criminal
law, which should not be mis-
construed as an endorsement of
polygamy,” Eby explains. “The
Criminal Code of Canada should
be concerned with sexual abuse
and lack of consent, not how
many people someone is mar-
ried to.”
Most of BCCLA’s advocacy
work involves bigger threats to
Canadians’ civil liberties than
polygamy. The association is
much more concerned with anti-
terrorism legislation and manda-
tory minimum sentences. “Tough
on crime rhetoric resonates very
strongly,” Eby says. “Prisons are
the most expensive way of deal-
ing with the problems of mental
health, addiction and poverty.”
Last Spring, Eby took a leave
of absence from the BCCLA to
run in the provincial by-election
for Vancouver-Point Grey as the
candidate for the BC New Demo-
cratic Party. On May 11, 2011, he
came within about 500 votes of
defeating B.C. Premier Christy
Clark—or less than three per
cent of the 14,147 votes cast. “I
knew running for office was a
long shot. My priority was to
raise the profile of issues I care
about, like homelessness and the
environment,” he says.
Eby, who is 6-foot- 7, towers
above his supporters in campaign photos. But don’t look for
him shooting hoops when he’s
not in the office. Instead, he plays
guitar and sings for an indie rock
band, is an avid reader, cyclist,
yogi and user of public transit
who frequents farmer’s markets
and rock concerts. n
