The Honourable Peter Lauwers, justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario and chair of the Civil Rules Committee's Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee, weighs in on some alarming implications of AI-generated evidence, the crucial questions litigators should be asking themselves when considering when to introduce or how to respond to such evidence, and his worries about how a “head-in-the-sand approach” might impact our justice system.

Agentic AI frameworks are increasingly being used in software development and customer service environments, but is there a place for them in law? OBA’s Innovator in Residence tackles that question with a look at a common law-firm scenario where the combined access and analytical and reasoning capabilities of these ‘agents’ could cultivate unexpected efficiencies and client satisfaction.

Ready to invest in AI but unsure of where to invest or allocate resources? Tali Green offers her top tips for lawyers on how to find the tools that will alleviate pain-points, increase revenue, and make your team happier and more productive.

From exam surveillance and facial recognition to access-to-information requests and risk evaluation, experts weigh in on the legal and practical challenges associated with the rapidly evolving landscape of technology in education.

As the presence of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the legal community grows, conversation around appropriate use of AI tools grows too. Emma Huang discusses the balance to be achieved between using AI to increase efficiency and access to justice in law, while protecting against the less appealing features of this technology.

With Call to the Bar ceremonies taking place across the province this month, and a new cohort of legal change-makers carving out career paths, what better time to pull back the curtain to expose the possibilities – the intrigue and enrichment – found in some of law’s most dynamic legal specialties and settings?

The popularity of generative AI applications has skyrocketed, leading to an explosion of unique legal issues and potential harms that the law has been called upon to address. One of the most severe is the use of deepfake technology or AI image generation to create fake images depicting a real, identifiable person in an intimate, explicit, or pornographic manner – which has already become an all-too-common practice with a disproportionately harmful impact on women.

Litigation can be a long and expensive process. It’s important that a party who is owed costs by the opposing party has assurance they will be able to recoup the full amount owed before further steps are taken in a proceeding or appeal – especially when the other party won’t take reasonable steps to settle. Katherine Shadbolt outlines the rules and strategies for lawyers to consider in seeking security for costs and the options available to enforce payment of a cost order.

Generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Cohere, and DALL-E2 are popular tools that allow organizations to generate images, text, sounds and creative content based on a prompt. While these tools can provide practical benefits such as improved efficiency and productivity, they raise privacy risks which are important to mitigate.

Whether it’s taking the time to get context around a client’s instructions, avoiding generic definitions, understanding that experiencing the death of a family member can be a form of trauma, or remembering to be alert to unconscious bias, lawyers who devote due consideration to family dynamics become better service providers.