With a surge in the number of new legal tech startups comes familiar but unfounded fear that lawyers will be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI). Shiva Bakhtiary explains why AI needs lawyers just as much as lawyers need AI to bring new efficiency, savings and service enhancements to legal work.

The first openly gay Master ever appointed in Canada, Master Robert Muir is remembered by friends and colleagues as a model of professionalism and mentorship whose legacy will live on in the many members of the justice community who benefitted from his thoughtful leadership and instrumental support.

In the wake of a pandemic that’s profoundly altered and entangled professional and personal life, lawyers and legal workplaces are finding new ways to ensure that career, care responsibilities and health and well-being all get the attention they need and deserve.

Members pull back the curtain to reveal what has surprised them most about private practice.

The pandemic has exacerbated the disparities that marginalized communities face when involved in the justice system. How can the courts, legal profession and social justice organizations combine forces to address the disproportionately negative effects of the crisis on society’s most vulnerable?

Nikki Gershbain, McCarthy Tétrault’s chief inclusion officer, shares details of a pro-bono-focused program, forged in the face of a pandemic, that provides rewarding experiential learning opportunities for students while connecting low-income Canadians with crucial free legal services.

What happens when bias and barriers to inclusion seem to validate the voice inside your head telling you you’re just not good enough? One lawyer’s story of conquering self-doubt offers strategies we can all employ to combat the undermining effects of impostor syndrome.

Lawyers find new sources of strength to tackle today’s extraordinary pressures.

Members share the pandemic-prompted tools and processes that have proven beneficial to their practices.

In the second article in a series celebrating SOGIC’s 25th anniversary, Douglas Elliott, one of the section’s first co-chairs, talks about his part in producing lasting change in the fight for equality, from his time working on the OBA’s report on AIDS, up to the final decisive vote in Mont Tremblant that created SOGIC’s national section.