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Sep 24, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Amelia Landenberger |Susannah Tredwell |Amy Salyzyn |Alan Macek
Keep a record of research questions you have answered and the next time you have a demonstration of a new product, use one or more of these questions (amended as appropriate). You get a much better idea of how a resource performs when you can compare its results to what you have retrieved using other resources than you do from a vendor’s prepared searches.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Amelia Landenberger |Susannah Tredwell |Amy Salyzyn |Alan Macek
Unless you are one of those legendary litigators who focuses on court and leaves all of their writing to someone else, lawyers spend a lot of time writing. It would be wonderful if legal and professional writing escaped the demons of creative writing, but in my experience, the demons of procrastination and self-doubt and the lure of online shopping can only be overcome by the looming dread of a deadline or the personal guilt of a missed deadline.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Amy Salyzyn |Alan Macek |Allison Wolf |John Willinsky
At the LSBC’s AGM tomorrow, several member resolutions will be up for a vote. Among them is a controversial resolution (Resolution 3) submitted by two BC lawyers that calls for changes to certain language in the LSBC’s Indigenous Intercultural Course. The language at issue references an unmarked burial site at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Alan Macek |Allison Wolf |John Willinsky |Michael Litchfield
Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada’s award-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from more than 80 recent Clawbie winners. In this way we hope to promote their work, with their permission, to as wide an audience as possible. This week the randomly selected blogs are 1. Legal Post Blog 2. Borderlines Podcast 3. The Court 4. PierreRoy & Associés 5.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Alan Macek |Allison Wolf |John Willinsky |Michael Litchfield
Patents have a reputation of being difficult to read and understand and a key part of most patent litigation proceedings is ‘construing’ or providing meaning to the claims of the patent. A recent decision of the Federal Court considered a series of claims which it determined were not possible to be understood – the claims were ambiguous. As a result, the claims were declared invalid. Declaring claims invalid for being ambiguous is rarely done in Canada.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | a Wave |Alan Macek
With generative AI increasingly being incorporated into new and
old products and services, a number of issues related to
intellectual property have come to the forefront of its use.
Generative AI tools typically operate by responding to a user
provided prompt. Depending on the implementation, the response
could be text – like a chat bot, an image or even a song. Sophistication of the tools varies with some providing more
accurate results, others more whimsical.
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May 27, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Melanie Neufeld |Allison Wolf |Alan Macek |Judith Gaskell
Each Monday we present brief excerpts of recent posts from five of Canada’s award-winning legal blogs chosen at random* from more than 80 recent Clawbie winners. In this way we hope to promote their work, with their permission, to as wide an audience as possible. This week the randomly selected blogs are 1. In All Fairness 2. Vincent Gautrais 3. The Court 4. BC Provincial Court eNews 5.
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May 24, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Melanie Neufeld |Allison Wolf |Alan Macek |Judith Gaskell
The focus of my career has shifted from primarily creating legal information for those without legal representation to now include risk management and loss prevention for lawyers. This expanded focus has also broadened my view on the importance of plain language for our profession. The benefits of a plain language approach for self-represented litigants are clear, but it also offers the potential of reducing claims risk for lawyers and their clients.
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May 23, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Allison Wolf |Alan Macek |Judith Gaskell |Robert McKay
Employers are no stranger to various forms of litigation like grievances, lawsuits and human rights complaints. Sometimes, these complaints proceed to a full hearing and decision, but not unfrequently, matters are settled by the parties without the need for a hearing. Usually, these settlements require the parties to keep the details confidential and not make any disparaging statements about the other party.
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May 23, 2024 | 
slaw.ca | Allison Wolf |Alan Macek |Judith Gaskell |Robert McKay
Several times each month, we are pleased to republish a recent book review from the Canadian Law Library Review (CLLR). CLLR is the official journal of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL/ACBD), and its reviews cover both practice-oriented and academic publications related to the law. Standards for the Control of Algorithmic Bias: The Canadian Administrative Context. By Natalie Heisler & Maura R Grossman. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2024. 108 p. Includes bibliographic references and index.
