Dominic Jaar

Dominic leads multidisciplinary teams through digital transformation projects focusing on such topics as cloud migration, privacy and data protection, digital identity, system integration, data governance and management, business intelligence, advanced analytics and disruptive technologies (blockchain, intelligent automation, artificial intelligence, etc.). His teams support public and private organizations with their information needs from a strategic, governance, process, technological, cultural, legal and ethical standpoint.

On the legal and judicial fronts, Dominic advises on Court and Legal Technologies and processes, Electronic Discovery as well as Case, Documents and Records Management.

Dominic also leads some of the most important Cyber security and incident response engagements in the world. As such he’s recognized as a court expert witness.

Prior to joining KPMG, Dominic was the CEO of the Canadian Centre for Court Technology, where he worked closely with the different stakeholders of the judicial system, including litigants, judges, ministers of justice, lawyers, law societies and court administrators. He was also 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 Canada’s largest telecommunication and technology company and a commercial litigator in one of Canada’s largest law firm.

Dominic taught e commerce and Internet law at the University of Montreal and electronic investigation methodology at Laval University for several years and currently teaches Cyber security at HEC Montreal and ETS. He is a sought after speaker on these and other topics such as the future of the judicial system and the practice of law, court and legal technology, information management and electronic discovery, privacy and cyber security at different North American universities and international conferences.

He is recognized as one of Canada’s leading business lawyer in e-Commerce and Internet Law and one of the top ten Canadian Forensic Technologists. He is also Advocatus Emeritus, one of the Quebec Bar’s highest recognitions.