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The nation’s top law firms are braced for disruption as « smart contract » technology threatens thousands of legal jobs and lawyers’ role intermediating commercial negotiations and disputes is automated by computers. One of the country’s biggest law firms, Allens, sent a report to its clients on Friday afternoon admitting that lawyers’ business model of profiting from an absence of trust in companies transacting with each is under threat from trust being […] Lire la suite

The Pitch, the first-ever legal innovation competition hosted by CBA and LegalX is off to a rousing start, with 31 submissions received by midnight on Wednesday. It’s now up to the committee of experts to survey the field and deliver, by June 23, the names of the five entrants who will go on to compete […] Lire la suite

DLA Piper announced today that it has partnered with Kira Systems to implement an artificial intelligence tool for document review during the due diligence process for M&A transactions. « We believe that this innovative technology will do for corporate transactional work what e-discovery has done for litigation, » said Jonathan Klein, chair of DLA Piper’s US Mergers […] Lire la suite

Winner of any prize for the best named institute for the study of technology and the law must be the Cyberjustice Laboratory  at the University of Montreal. It also jostles with the other global contenders for leadership in examining the impact of technology on the legal process. That puts it within a class including  the […] Lire la suite

Du 13 au 18 juin 2016, le Laboratoire de cyberjustice accueillera étudiants et professionnels lors de son école d’été 2016. L’objectif de cette école d’été est de diffuser l’état actuel des connaissances du Laboratoire, tout en offrant l’opportunité unique aux participants de côtoyer et d’échanger avec des experts réputés dans le domaine de la cyberjustice. […] Lire la suite

Pré-programme Allocutions d’ouverture Patrick SANNINO, président, Chambre nationale française des huissiers de justice et Chambre européenne des huissiers de justice Fernando Paulino PEREIRA, chef d’unité « Coopération judiciaire civile », président du groupe e-Justice, Secrétariat général du Conseil de l’Union européenne Le nouveau règlement européen sur les petits litiges et l’e-Justice Dick HEIMANS, chef d’unité adjoint, directeur […] Lire la suite

Artificial intelligence has the potential to help reform policing and criminal justice practices nationwide, experts say. However, one challenge to deploying widespread artificial intelligence is refining the data to avoid reinforcing historic biases. The White House and the University of Chicago have teamed up with police departments across America to « start fixing » biases with the […] Lire la suite

Major law firms are beginning to wake up to the potential of artificial intelligence to modernise their business – but how will AI work in practice? Everybody is talking in grandiose terms about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) in law and last month, this talk got louder still with the news that Linklaters had […] Lire la suite

The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice is a national not – for – profit organization dedicated to civil justice reform and access to justice research and advocacy. Established by the Canadian Bar Association and affiliated with Osgoode Hall Law School, the CFCJ envisions an accessible, sustainable and effective justice system for all Canadians. Overview of […] Lire la suite