The Legal Innovation Zone (LIZ) at Ryerson University, in partnership with the Ministry of the Attorney General (MAG), has announced finalists for the Ontario AI Legal Challenge with an eventual prize of $80K seed funding and access to LIZ’s resources and mentoring.
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.
CaseCrunch, a recent AI startup founded by Cambridge law students, has won a challenge against 112 lawyers in predicting outcomes of claims with the UK Financial Ombudsman for mis-selling Payment Protection Insurance (PPI). The competition provided participants with factual scenarios for PPI mis-selling claims and asked for a yes or no prediction on whether the claim would be upheld.
Primafact has released version 5, a major upgrade to their popular litigation document management software. Litigators use Primafact to manage and quickly access evidentiary documents when preparing cases.
This new version contains important improvements to annotations with issue coding, allowing teams to view case content by issue.
