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Darin Thompson's CPD Podcast | Colin Lachance - AI Powered Legal Research with Canada's Chief Legal Informatics Officer (#10) | 1.8 Hours of CPD
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What does Colin say about lawyers be on Twitter?
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Lawyers should put some thought about the "personality" they will have or use on Twitter
They may start off with the innocent "I like pie" Tweets
They should be on Twitter - even just to watch and gather info, or learn on a bare minimum
Twitter is not something to do only because lawyers think they need another advertising platform
The global exposure to information and information sharing is very positive
All of the above
What was/were Colin's objective(s) as the first full-time CEO of CanLII?
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Contribute to its permanence - moving from a "cool thing" to something that should never go away
Developing an API (application programming interface) to unbundle access to CanLII's intelligence
Developing new connections with secondary legal material
All of the above
How was CanLII originally founded and funded?
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Through the Federation of Law Societies of Canada
By subscription fees
By funding from courts, who need a place to host their online decisions
How does Colin describe part of the value proposition for legal research product vLex?
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It is a single source that saves you from ever needing another research tool
It is complementary to products like CanLII - and can provide different, faster or more powerful ways to find legal information
What are some of the functions of artificially intelligent legal research tools?
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It can analyze a document you create and upload into the system
It can analyze a document you created and give you suggestions based on related information automatically
It can help you recognize when your legal research is complete
It can tell you what you missed in your research
It can draw associations between different sources of information that may be related, relevant and/or helpful
It can use natural language processing (NLP) to "read" a document and extract phrases, against which it will run searches, assess quality of results and attempt to make valuable suggestions to you
All of the above
What is one of the predictions Colin thinks we'll see in the future?
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Robot lawyers eliminating all humans
Another artificial intelligence "ice age"
Integration of legal research tools deeper into the user's system and processes or workflow
Courts banning use of all legal technology-based research tools because they're not traditional
The resurgence of Microsoft's "Clippy" tool
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