Dominic Jaar

Dominic is the Canadian Advisory Leader, Clients & Markets, and a partner in KPMG’s Forensic Technology Practice, focusing on supporting organisations’ Forensic Technology needs (Ediscovery, Digital Forensics, Records & Information Management, DataAnalytics and Cyber Investigations).

Dominic is a guest speaker on such topics as privacy, legal technology, IT law, cross-border data flow, information management, investigation methodology and ediscovery at different universities, including McGill, University of Montreal, Laval and Ottawa, and international conferences, such as LegalTech, ARMA, ILTA, ABA Techshow and the ediscovery Institute. Dominic also teaches ediscovery and technology to Canadian judges, via the National Judicial Institute.

He regularly acts as an expert in cases involving ediscovery disputes, and was recognised as such before the Quebec Superior Court. He has also been recognised for the last five years as one of Canada’s leading lawyer in e-commerce and Internet law, as well as one of Canada’s top ten forensic technologists by the international Who’s Who Legal.

Prior to joining KPMG, Dominic was the CEO of the Canadian Centre for Court Technology. As such, he sat on the Canadian Judicial Council’s Judges Technology Advisory Committee.

During the same period, he was the president of Ledjit Consulting, Canada’s leading Information Management and ediscovery firm, bridging the gap between IT and the Law™, which was acquired by KPMG. Before founding Ledjit, Dominic  was an in-house counsel at Bell Canada where he focused on ediscovery, as well as IT and complex litigation. Previously, he worked as a commercial litigator in one of Canada’s largest law firms.

Dominic was involved in the development and improvement of many international standards and best practices regarding Data, Discovery as well as law and technology. He also worked with a number of software companies to help them develop and improve ediscovery and forensic technology solutions.