Ted Tjaden, LLB, MISt, LLM, is a Canadian litigation knowledge management lawyer, legal researcher, and law librarian. He was called to the bar in British Columbia (1987) and Ontario (1996) and has practised law in a variety of circumstances, including as a commercial litigator, in-house counsel to a large Japanese technology company, and as a national director of litigation knowledge management at a national law firm. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Queen’s University, and both a Master of Information Studies and a Master of Laws degree from the University of Toronto, where he also taught legal research and writing as an adjunct professor. Ted is also the author of numerous legal texts including The Law of Independent Legal Advice, 2nd ed. (Carswell) and the online database Causes of Action, Defences and Remedies in Canada (WestlawNext Canada).