The recent appeal decision AA v Law Society of Ontario upheld the Law Society Tribunal’s 2023 decision to licence to applicant “AA” after finding him to be of “good character”—even though AA had admitted to have sexually abused three young children in 2009 (and to hiding this information from the Law Society in an earlier...Read More

Last semester, with increasing agitation in the media about AI’s potential impact on the legal profession, I decided to wade in and show my students a little AI in my law school classroom. The course is Advanced Legal Research. The Experiment I gathered up a list of interesting readings on the topic of AI and...Read More

Customer service is in decline. In my opinion, the problem is worse with large organizations. I skimmed the surface in my last post “The Robots are Already in Control (Part One)“. Companies that are primarily internet-based are the worst. One of my major pet peeves is a corporate website that has no phone numbers. For...Read More

As a general principle, citations in scholarly works have two purposes: to prove that the point is supported by evidence, and to allow the reader to find the evidence that the author is citing to. The pain of citations comes from the requirement that these citations be made as brief as possible by painstakingly utilizing...Read More