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Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York
An artificial-intelligence lawyer chatbot has successfully contested 160,000 parking tickets across London and New York for free, showing that chatbots can actually be useful. Dubbed as “the world’s first robot lawyer” by its 19-year-old creator, London-born second-year Stanford University student Joshua Browder, DoNotPay helps users contest parking tickets in an easy to use chat-like interface. […] Lire la suite
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Pierre Craig en visite au Laboratoire de cyberjustice
Mardi 21 juin – Pierre Craig, animateur et journaliste retraité, est venu rencontrer Karim Benyekhlef, directeur du Laboratoire de cyberjustice et titulaire de la Chaire LexUm en information juridique. Ce fut l’occasion pour lui de découvrir le Laboratoire et de discuter de l’accès à la justice, cause pour laquelle il est particulièrement investi. À ce […] Lire la suite
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Lawyers prepare for ‘driverless M&A’ as smart contract era dawns
The nation’s top law firms are braced for disruption as « smart contract » technology threatens thousands of legal jobs and lawyers’ role intermediating commercial negotiations and disputes is automated by computers. One of the country’s biggest law firms, Allens, sent a report to its clients on Friday afternoon admitting that lawyers’ business model of profiting from an absence of trust in companies transacting with each is under threat from trust being […] Lire la suite
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Le Ministre de la justice de France, Jean-Jacques Urvoas, en visite au Laboratoire de cyberjustice
Vendredi 17 juin, Montréal – Le Garde des sceaux français, Jean-Jacques Urvoas, était en visite au Laboratoire de cyberjustice en présence de Karim Benyekhlef, directeur du Laboratoire, de Nicolas Vermeys, directeur adjoint du Laboratoire, de Benoît Moore, Vice-recteur de l’Université de Montréal, de France Houle, Vice-doyenne de la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Montréal […] Lire la suite
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The Pitch: Expert judges survey the field
The Pitch, the first-ever legal innovation competition hosted by CBA and LegalX is off to a rousing start, with 31 submissions received by midnight on Wednesday. It’s now up to the committee of experts to survey the field and deliver, by June 23, the names of the five entrants who will go on to compete […] Lire la suite
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Blockchains and Online Dispute Resolution: Smart Contracts as an Alternative to Enforcement
The prolific rise of cross-border transactions, e.g. e-commerce, is rapidly changing both dispute resolution and enforcement. The dominance of the Internet means that individuals are more often entering into contractual relations regardless of geographical locations or jurisdictional boundaries. Undoubtedly, the increase in online transactions has also caused an upsurge of disputes; in order to preserve […] Lire la suite
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Compensation cases set to be settled in ‘online only’ courts, according to top judge
THE day of virtual reality court has arrived, one of Northern Ireland’s most senior judges has announced as he signalled the advent of completely `online courts’ is imminent. Lord Justice John Gillen, one of three Lords Justices of Appeal, is conducting a review of civil and family courts and has indicated a raft of innovative […] Lire la suite
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Today’s Tech: Trial Technology In The Classroom And Courtroom
One area of legal technology that has seen an uptick in recent years is trial presentation technology. Both lawyers and judges are more receptive to this idea and for good reason: it streamlines trial presentation and presents information in a format that jurors are more receptive to. To Read More. Lire la suite
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Les États-Unis affûtent leur projet Open Source, la France aussi
Les États-Unis veulent accélérer le partage et la réutilisation du code source de logiciels développés par ou pour le gouvernement fédéral américain. En France, l’administration fiscale a mis à disposition le code source de son calculateur d’impôts lors d’un hackaton. L’administration utilise largement l’Open Source, mais elle hésite encore à partager le code source de […] Lire la suite
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Restrict online access to court cases not resulting in conviction, B.C. judge says
The chief justice of the Provincial Court says online access to cases in which a person was not convicted of a crime should be limited, a blow to media outlets that argued the court and its records should be as open as possible. Chief Justice Thomas Crabtree announced a consultation regarding an online database, known […] Lire la suite
