LexCloud Blog

Toronto is quickly becoming known as a global hub for development of AI software and the legal sector is no exception. Toronto based Blue J Legal recently released Employment Foresight to complement their existing Tax Foresight product. The company was started by professors at UofT Law School in 2014 when now CEO Benjamin Alarie was a judge for IBM’s Watson Challenge at UofT. Professor Alarie started by applying machine learning to predicting tax dispute outcomes and is now expanding scope to other legal areas.

Award-winning Worldox Document Management Software (DMS) has gone mobile with their native iOS application. Maker of Worldox, the most widely used DMS in the world, World Software Corp. has launched a mobile application that allows users of their nearly 10,000 installations worldwide to access their documents from any iOS device.

Maureen Whelton
Managing Partner

Stevenson Whelton MacDonald & Swan LLP

Litigation and Personal Injury
14 lawyers, 15 staff
Toronto, Vaughan, Oakville, & Oshawa, Ontario

Stevensons LLP and MacDonald & Swan LLP were ready to make big changes to their firms. Their ambitious plans included merging and growing their practices to multiple locations. Among many things, this required a complete re-evaluation of their IT. Four offices spread across central Ontario required a robust, reliable system that could be easily and consistently employed across locations. They needed IT that empowered their newly formed firm to grow and prosper, and at the same time, not break the bank at a crucial time in their evolution.

On November 16^th, 2017 our very own CEO Mike Dewdney took part in a panel for the Ontario Trial Lawyer’s Association (OTLA) on the positives and drawbacks of adopting Cloud IT for law firms.

Cyber-security experts across the globe are warning that a sophisticated new virus designed to use social media to spy on and collect banking details is loose on the Internet. The virus is what is known as a ‘banker’ virus designed to steal sensitive financial information that can then be used to steal money from its victims.