Tamara Porter, Director of Business Development, eDiscovery, joined our team six years ago and has led our efforts in supporting enterprise in-house legal teams across Western Canada. We recently spoke with Tamara about her rich background in the realm of tech and business development, her plans on how she will continue to support the success of our industry and why, she believes, there is “never a dull moment” in the world of legal tech.

We recently spoke with Chris Jurkiewicz, Co-Founder and V.P. of Client Services of Venio Systems. From his two decades of eDiscovery experience, Chris provided us with great insights on how cloud-based, self-service eDiscovery has aided in the new work-from-home demands, a teaser of what’s to come with VenioOne OnDemand’s new update and the advice he would give to someone looking to find their passion in the world of legal tech.

Chris Plauschinn began his career in the technology realm with Commonwealth Legal before it was acquired by Ricoh in 2014. Now the Director of Cloud and Infrastructure Solutions, Chris oversees both the public and private cloud infrastructure that powers the software solutions offered by Ricoh Canada.

We recently spoke with Andrea Williams, V.P. of Technology & Emerging Solutions at Ricoh eDiscovery, about the early days of eDiscovery, the exciting changes ahead and why she believes it is essential to try new things.

Relativity, a leader in the Gartner's Magic Quadrant for eDiscovery Software and AI technology like Active Learning™, is a full-featured eDiscovery platform with diverse coding options, flexible workflow capabilities, a complete suite of text and visual data analysis. Their eDiscovery platform is used by more than 13,000 organizations around the world to manage large volumes of data and quickly identify key issues during litigation, internal investigations and compliance operations with their SaaS platform RelativityOne and Relativity Trace.

We recently spoke with Sean Lynch, Director of Legal and Compliance Solutions, about his role in leading Ricoh Canada’s customer success and emerging technology solutions. With a decade of litigation and eDiscovery expertise, including extensive document review experience, Sean shares his insights on the current eDiscovery landscape, his clients’ biggest challenges and what he’s most looking forward to in the future of legal tech.

ActiveNav develops industry leading file analysis software that enables the discovery, transformation and ongoing control of unstructured data. Its products play a fundamental role in information governance strategies by facilitating cost savings, risk remediation and improving efficiency through information audit, clean up and defensible deletion, intelligent file migration, records capture, eDiscovery collection and ongoing policy monitoring.

We've launched a new series called 5 Questions with... where we interview people who are working in the legal technology and information management industry to learn more about their personal contributions, biggest challenges and ideas for the future.

Andrew Bowyer is the founder of ADB Insights — a Vancouver-based media and consulting company. ADB Insights convenes forums, workshops and digitally-based platforms focused on change in the professional services sector, including the Canadian Legal Innovation Forum which Ricoh is a proud sponsor of.