As a Canadian tribunal is moving online for the very first time, the push towards increasing access to justice using technology is as loud as ever. In July 2016, the British Columbia’s Civil Resolution Tribunal (BCCRT) started hearing small claims cases online. In a system plagued by the constant backlog caused by an ever-growing caseload, […] Read more
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Students: Protect your research and academic integrity with Lexbox
It’s that time of year again: final papers are underway, and law students everywhere are scattering to get all necessary research out of the way in time to get their thoughts on paper. But there’s never enough time. The clock is always ticking. And with information as widely available as ever, there is so much […] Read more
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Researching Niche Legal Issues
Today, electronic data is generated at a rate and volume exponentially faster than anything seen previously. We have brilliant tools like CanLII at our fingertips to access all of it. But CanLII is best navigated by lawyers and legal professionals who understand the nature of the relationships between documents and what search terms to look […] Read more
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Lexbox: Making the Students of Today Efficient Lawyers of Tomorrow
Lexbox is everything a law student needs: it’s a Google extension that helps organize and monitor your online legal research. You can store relevant legal information from various online sources and alerts in one location. And, it’s free. Which is arguably its most important feature, if you’re a debt-riddled law student. I say ‘arguably’, because […] Read more