Friday, February 14, 2025Stephen A. ThieleLitigationAI, Research

As a research lawyer with over 30 years experience, I often worry that advances to AI-assisted legal research tools will one day eliminate my job and that senior and junior lawyers will no longer seek my assistance with analyzing precedent case law to provide an answer on legal issues that arise in client matters...

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Monday, December 21, 2020Stephen A. ThieleLitigationRules of Professional Conduct, Research, Disciplinary Hearing, Ethics, Legal Research , Law Society of Ontario

Legal research is important. In general, every legal issue requires some form of legal research because each legal issue is informed either by...

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Monday, December 14, 2020Stephen A. ThieleLitigationResearch, COVID-19, Lexis Advance, Quicklaw, CanLII, NextCanada

I have been a legal research lawyer for almost 30 years. When I started law school in 1987 the use of laptops to take notes in lectures was completely unknown. Our first year legal research and writing class was based..

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