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There’s a New Tool in Town: AI Use in Practice

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Credits
Professionalism (Ethics, etc.): 0.75
45 minutes
Published
2025
Presenter(s)
Amy Salyzyn
Source
County of Carleton Law Association (CCLA)
Provider
CPDOnline.ca
Language
English
Length
45 minutes
Price
$209.00 plus tax
CCLA 34th Annual Institute of Family Law Conference

AI is changing the practice of law and while most of us are reticent, we need to remain current on technological evolution within our legal practices. Professor Amy Salyzyn is passionate about AI and will be speaking about its use in practice. This presentation introduces AI fundamentals including generative AI’s probabilistic pattern based approach and its applications in drafting, research and client communication; explores lawyers’ ethical duties to advocate without abusing process or misleading tribunals and to comply with statutory and legislative requirements; examines how to manage client expectations about fees and disbursements and integrate technology responsibly into service delivery; highlights risks such as fabricated citations, hallucinations, data security pitfalls and deepfakes; and offers best practices for workplace AI policies, proportionate disclosure procedures and an iterative mindset of curiosity, confidence and caution to maintain professional competence and confidentiality.

Presenters

Professor Amy Salyzyn

Prior to joining the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa as a Sessional Lecturer, Amy received her LL.M. from Yale Law School and her J.D. from the University of Toronto Law School. Amy has also served as a judicial law clerk at the Court of Appeal for Ontario and has practiced at a Toronto litigation boutique. Her litigation practice included a wide variety of civil and commercial litigation matters including breach of contract, tort, professional negligence, securities litigation and employment law as well as administrative law matters. In Fall 2011, she was a Visiting Researcher at Osgoode Hall Law School. Amy is currently completing doctoral work at Yale Law School where her dissertation involves a comparative study of the regulation of the legal profession in England, the United States and Canada. For the upcoming year, she has been awarded the 2013-14 OBA Foundation Chief Justice of Ontario Fellowship in Legal Ethics and Professionalism (Fellowship in Studies) to study the ethical implications of lawyers’ pre-litigation demand letters.