My five-part “The Law Firm” series frames issues and proposes solutions to the global legal service market’s juggernaut triplets – Artificial Intelligence, Pricing, and Talent Transience.
For some unfathomable reason, many law firms have tended not to run as businesses,
The beginning of another academic year has me reflecting on what more we can give students beyond the curriculum.
We spend considerable time thinking about what students need to know and what they need to be able to do. We
I recently watched a movie, and one of the characters, who was bullied, made a very poignant statement.
She said: “If the person who bullied me decided not to be mean, his life would not have changed… however, my life
In recent years, the number of law librarians in public sector and academic roles has declined. Most notably, the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General (MAG) has reduced the staff of its Toronto-based law library to the point that, as
Many generative AI tools are relatively easy to access and use. For example, no technical expertise is required to pull up and type a prompt into ChatGPT, and the most basic version is free. This reality has led to a
This is a fairly specific problem: sometimes a case quotes a section from an older edition of a book and you need to find the quotation in the current edition of the book.
Assuming the most recent edition is available
The growth of self-representation in all adjudicative settings may ultimately require a new approach to adjudication that is even more fundamental than a root and branch overhaul of procedure and practice. What legislators and courts may need to consider is
This summer our law library intern (shout out to Bailey Kaye!) is reviewing our archival casebook collection for a digitization project. Among them was a casebook for exchange students arriving at Dalhousie Law School in 1978. It outlined an introduction
Several times each month, we are pleased to republish a recent book review from the Canadian Law Library Review (CLLR). CLLR is the official journal of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL/ACBD), and its reviews cover
Artificial intelligence is proliferating the legal sector. In the article, “AI Competence Is Now a Professional Obligation“, Soussanna Karas writes that the question is not will lawyers use AI but “whether they will do so competently, ethically, and
