TVA|The Legal Outsourcing Network has a team
of lawyers who are available to conduct extensive document
review in class action and other document-intense litigation
or transactions including:
- due diligence reviews
- subjective coding for relevance and privilege
- issue-based coding;
either on-site, or off-site through secure internet connections.
All of our Virtual Associates are members in good standing
of The Law Society of Upper Canada and/or other law societies
across Canada ensuring confidentiality, privilege and
avoiding the application of the Patriot Act. They all
carry E&O insurance and upon request, TVA can arrange
excess E&O insurance coverage. We are able to deploy
a team of document review lawyers of virtually any size.
Our current capacity is in excess of 1,000 hours per week.
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The Ontario Bar Association has posted a series of model
e-discovery and e-trial precedents, that can be found
at: www.oba.org
In one of the articles, 10
Guiding Principles to Minimize E-Discovery Costs,
at pages 3 and 4, the Ontario E-Discovery Implementation
Committee endorses the use of contract lawyers and says,
…lawyers and clients should consider available methods
of reducing the cost of the lawyers’ work, even if lawyer
involvement is required. This can involve increasing
efficiency (such as through use of precedents, pre-set
procedures, and the like) or using lawyers who charge
a lower billable rate (such as contract lawyers, who
can be engaged to review documents for relevance and
privilege at a much lower hourly rate than the average
lawyer bills their client).
In addition to this cost saving, TVA actively manages
its network of vetted, trusted and experienced contract
lawyers. Below are the profiles of eight Virtual Associates
with recent experience on document review projects:
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