The 2022 release of ChatGPT led to many breathless headlines about how generative AI would be an A2J boon. The mood is now more muted: while AI has driven some change in the legal context over the last three years, much has stayed the same. Given the time that has passed, some reckoning with where...Read More

A key barrier to accessing justice in rural and remote communities is the lack of high-quality, reliable Internet. According to Statistics Canada, households in rural areas are nearly twice as likely to lack home Internet access and are almost ten times more likely to cite poor Internet quality as the reason for not having it.[1]...Read More

The most brilliant legal strategy means nothing if your client doesn’t understand it. Yet as lawyers lean toward complexity and precision, clients need something different. Lawyers sometimes forget that effective communication isn’t just about being right – it’s about being understood. When clients do not understand the advice they are receiving, the consequences can be...Read More

Navigating the legal system is challenging for any self-represented litigant (SRL), but for victim-survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) or family violence, it can also be deeply retraumatizing. Without a lawyer, SRLs are directly exposed to the adversarial nature of the court process, where abusers can continue harassing victim-survivors through aggressive and oppositional tactics. At...Read More