The role of the General Counsel is changing quickly. Once defined primarily by legal judgment, risk management, and responsiveness to the business, today’s GC is increasingly expected to operate as a strategic executive, technology decision-maker, transformation leader, and architect of a more efficient legal function. Paula Pepin has seen that shift from both sides of […]
Canada’s Refi Wave Could Reopen the Door for Real Estate Lawyers
For much of the past two decades, refinance closing work in Canada has moved away from traditional legal practices and toward centralized providers built around speed, scale, and cost efficiency. That shift made sense in a lower-volume, more predictable mortgage environment. But the market entering 2026 looks very different. Nearly two million Canadian mortgages are […]
Avorent Brings Legal AI to Ontario’s Legal Aid Workflow
As legal AI tools continue to move deeper into Canadian law firms, one startup is targeting a corner of the profession often left out of the conversation: lawyers doing legal aid work. Avorent, a new AI tool launched by Mississauga-based law clerk Alex Miranda, is built specifically for Ontario lawyers working with Legal Aid Ontario […]
Clio Launches Legal AI Accelerator With Goal To Train 25,000 Legal Professionals
Clio is making a major education push around legal AI. The Vancouver-headquartered legaltech company has launched the Legal AI Accelerator, a free training and certification program designed to help legal professionals build practical AI fluency as the technology becomes a bigger part of day-to-day legal work. Through the initiative, Clio has committed to training 25,000 […]
How Beitel Tax Law Is Building the Knowledge Foundation for Legal AI
As artificial intelligence becomes more embedded in legal work, the firms best positioned to benefit may not be the ones chasing every new tool, but the ones building the knowledge infrastructure to use those tools responsibly. At Beitel Tax Law, that work is being led in part by Caroline Elias, the firm’s Knowledge Management and […]