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Legal Ethics Checklist

  • April 02, 2020
  • Shawn Erker

A five-point legal ethics checklist to help avoid impropriety and unintentional ethical breaches when undertaking legal matters.

Law Practice Management, Student Forum
Julie Weller

Workers’ Compensation & Entitlement for Work-Related COVID-19

  • April 02, 2020
  • Julie Weller

The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board ("WSIB") has confirmed that workers should file claims if they believe that they have contracted COVID-19 while at work. However, the rapid ease with which COVID-19 spreads through communities creates a unique adjudicative challenge. This article discusses the complex principles behind entitlement for WSIB claims pertaining to COVID-19.

Student Forum, Workers' Compensation

Why Artificial Intelligence Will Not Replace Lawyers

  • March 30, 2020
  • Shiva Bakhtiary, lawyer at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

With a surge in the number of new legal tech startups come concerned citizens warning that lawyers will soon be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI). This unwarranted hype around AI is based on the misconception that we have developed a general or autonomous intelligence system - a computer system that mimics human intelligence, replicates human behavior in any context, and recognizes and resolves new problems for which it was not designed.

Student Forum, Young Lawyers' Division
Rozmin Mediratta, Wise Health Law

Delivering Virtual Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • March 27, 2020
  • Rozmin Mediratta, Wise Health Law

Technology has played an integral role in the delivery of healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic, and has helped maximize healthcare professionals' ability to provide necessary care to patients while minimizing the spread and exposure to the virus.

Health Law, Student Forum