Legal work is often still filled with paper and hand-written notes. These can be easily lost, and digitizing and sharing them can be a problem. CamScanner, an app for Android and iOS, is an elegant solution to this problem.
CamScanner is a highly regarded mobile app that allows you to scan documents, whiteboards, notes, or anything else you can think of, into a digital file on your phone.
Karn Malhotra
Managing Partner
Personal Injury Specialists
2 lawyers, 4 staff
Hamilton, Ontario
When it became time for KM Personal Injury Law to establish their new office, Karn Malhotra wanted to look at alternatives to in-house servers. He knew what making a capital investment in IT equipment meant: a seemingly endless cycle of server upgrades.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to bring big changes to the practice of law as well as improvements to access to justice, and increased affordability of legal services. It seems every month new applications are released that take advantage of ever faster computers and the ability to learn from data without explicit programming (see some of our earlier posts on AI: Ryerson AI Challenge, Blue J Legal releases AI software, AI outperforms lawyers).
Queen’s Law recently convened a panel of distinguished alumnae to provide insights on the impact of AI for the legal profession in the next decade.
Late in 2017, several groups of researchers from Graz University of Technology in Austria to Google’s labs, discovered a pair of exploits subsequently dubbed “Meltdown” and “Spectre” that have the cyber security community all abuzz. What makes these exploits so scary is the fact that they allow access to the most sensitive information on almost all the active computers in the world.
The Legal Technology Resource Center of the ABA has released its 2017 survey of technology use in the legal profession.
