CBC Nova Scotia: Lawyer warns ‘integrity of the entire system in jeopardy’ if rising use of AI in legal circles goes wrong

March 1, 2024 —

Earlier this week, a B.C. Supreme Court judge reprimanded lawyer Chong Ke for including two AI hallucinations in an application filed last December.

Hallucinations are a product of how the AI system works, explained Katie Szilagyi, an assistant professor in the law department at University of Manitoba.

ChatGPT is a large language model, meaning it’s not looking at the facts, only what words should come next in a sequence based on trillions of possibilities. The more data it’s fed, the more it learns.

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Educating Business Leaders of the Future

On November 6, 2024, law students from the Faculty of Law’s L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic, Ravi Balchan (3L) [B. Comm. (Hons.)/2022], Alli Knox (3L) [B. Comm. (Hons.)/2017], and Jordan Wagner (3L) [B. Comm. (Hons.)/2022], all Asper School of Business graduates, hosted a webinar in collaboration with the Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship entitled Startup Law 101: Protect Your New Venture.

Where Law and Theatre Connect

On November 5, 2024, 3 law students from the Faculty of Law’s Manitoba Legal Clinic for the Arts became educators and gave an in-person seminar to the University of Winnipeg’s “The Business of Theatre” Class.

Manitoba’s Access to Justice Week 2024 webinars reach record-breaking audience

Record-breaking numbers of people registered for Manitoba’s four Access to Justice Week webinars presented October 28 to 31, 2024. A total of 990 registrations were received from 555 unique individuals. For the fourth year in a row, The Faculty of Law, Law Society of Manitoba, and the Manitoba Bar Association organized panels designed to bring together stakeholders in the legal community to develop meaningful, public-centred solutions that advance systemic change in the justice system.