Transformative change is underway in the Canadian lawyer licensing system. Two of the country’s largest law societies have signalled the impending end of high-stakes, multiple-choice legal-knowledge ...

This submission is part of a column swap with the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) bimonthly member magazine, AALL Spectrum. Published six times a year, AALL Spectrum is designed to ...

As has been widely reported over the past two weeks, the Law Society of Ontario is considering eliminating the existing bar exams and replacing them with “a mandatory skills-based course with ...

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In my last column, I moved away from regulatory analysis to explore how artificial intelligence may affect specific functions within the legal profession. In this piece, I return to the theme of risk ...

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“Reserves do not improve with age. The longer a decision sits unwritten, the heavier it becomes.” When the Honourable Deena Baltman (retired) offered this observation during a recent continuing ...

There has been much chatter on LinkedIn about a new academic article about the Verification-Value Paradox (of GenAI use by lawyers). The article claims that it is doubtful that GenAI delivers value to ...

The recent barrage of copyright lawsuits involving AI companies has revealed the staggering scale of copying undertaken to train large language models (LLMs). In the recently decided Bartz v.

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In my previous post, Is it All About the Prompts? Experimenting with Gen AI to Develop Public Legal Information, I experimented with the free version of ChatGPT-5 to determine if the steps in my usual ...