Law Society of Saskatchewan Archives for Technology
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November 4, 2022
Updates to the 2022 KBRA Online
As we promised upon the release of the 2022 QBRA, the 2022 Saskatchewan King’s Bench Rules Annotated Online was updated on Tuesday pursuant to the amendments effective November 1 with consequent changes to annotations. Each rule in the online version has now been bookmarked to help subscribers navigate the text more easily. You can access parts and rules easily by...
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November 3, 2021
Technology Trends in the Law: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger?
For our November 5th seminar, Technology Trends in the Law: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger, Andrew Arruda (CEO, Automate Medical), Adrian Camara (CEO, Athennian), and Claudiu Popa (CEO, Informatica), join us to share their thoughts and expertise on cybersecurity, privacy and technology trends in the law. Breakouts for smaller group discussion with the presenters follow their sessions. (more…)
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November 20, 2020
3… 2… 1… (Re)Launch Your Saskatchewan Legal Databases!
By Alan Kilpatrick, Librarian I am very excited to announce that today we are officially relaunching our searchable in-house Saskatchewan legal databases on a modern, mobile-friendly, cloud-based platform: Law Society of Saskatchewan Conduct Review Database Law Society of Saskatchewan Ethics Rulings Database Saskatchewan Bills database Saskatchewan Cases database Saskatchewan Court of Appeal Sentencing Digest Saskatchewan legal practitioners, the judiciary, and...
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August 17, 2020
On Legal Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
“There continues to be extensive discussion about artificial intelligence and law, and concerns are regularly raised about the ethical and moral issues this presents,” writes CanLII’s Director of Programs and Partnerships, Sarah Sutherland in her latest Slaw column. “AI is a difficult topic because there are simultaneously strong ethical reasons to push forward and to pull back. First the push:...
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June 16, 2020
CALI Offering Mini-Course for Law Faculty: Preparing for the Future of Legal Education – Online Teaching Tips & Techniques
In Spring 2020, Law Schools experienced the largest online teaching experiment in history. They didn’t have time to prepare, change the syllabus, create new content - you just had to move it all online. This was “Emergency Remote Teaching” to distinguish it from distance learning or online teaching. Some portion of legal education in Fall 2020 will likely be delivered...
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May 1, 2020
New Resources on Digital Security
The Law Society of Saskatchewan is creating a series of videos on digital security. While this will focus on home device usage, given the uptick in working from home, the information applies to computers and devices at any location. There will be 5 videos in the series, hosted by Craig Zawada, Q.C.: Introduction to digital securityPassword tipsConfiguring a home network...
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September 3, 2019
Meet Vincent!
By Ken Fox, Research Librarian The Law Society Library is pleased to announce that we have added Vincent to our menu of online research services available to all Saskatchewan lawyers. Vincent is an intelligent research assistant by vLex. Vincent can analyze a judgment, brief, legal memorandum or any other legal document, and extract significant concepts to generate the most relevant...
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March 21, 2019
Announcing the LSS Cloud Computing Guide
By Greg Hluska, IT Coordinator Cloud. You've heard the term, perhaps wondered what it really meant and maybe even worried about it. 'The cloud' is just a marketing term that means the internet. So, if you see the term 'cloud storage', it means 'store your documents on the internet'. There are many benefits to using the cloud properly. If you...
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January 8, 2019
Reminder: Check Us Out on SlawTips
For the last two years, some of the best legal research and technology tips from our Legal Sourcery team have also been featured on SlawTips. Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, SlawTips features advice you can use on technology, practice and research. If you want to receive these tips directly, you can sign up with email or RSS, and you can follow...
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November 30, 2018
Tech Tip: Convert to Text!
By Ken Fox You know what really grinds my gears? When I open a PDF file containing what appears to be digitally-formatted text and find that it is non-copyable and non-searchable. The ability to search, copy and paste text are essential functions of digital communications – so the idea that a text is born digitally and therefore ASCII (American Standard...
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