Martin Felsky

In Martin's 40-year legal career he has been sought out as a technology transformation advisor to law firms, governments, courts and corporations around the world. Martin was involved in drafting the Ontario eDiscovery Guidelines, the Sedona Canada Principles, and was active on the Ontario Digital Evidence and eDiscovery Working Group for many years. He served on the Uniform Law Conference of Canada Electronic Document Rules Working Group, which developed nationally consistent rules of practice. He was appointed to the Canadian General Standards Board Committee on the admissibility of digital evidence in 2014.

Martin is also the author of several Canadian Judicial Council publications including the Blueprint for the Security of Court Information, now in its 7th edition. The Blueprint has been implemented in every Canadian superior court. He provides legal, policy and technical advice to courts across Canada on the issues of information governance including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and privacy, and he is considered an expert on judicial independence and information governance.

Martin has been recognized annually in Who's Who Legal (Litigation) as a global thought leader since 2015. From 2012-2016 he was Chair of the Board of the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII), which provides free access to legal decisions.