CLIA is proud to partner with the Law Society of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Lawyers’ Insurance Association (SLIA) to present Bite Size CPD.  

Bite Size CPD are short, under 12-minute CPD videos, covering a variety of topics including cybersecurity, wellness, practice management, client management, and more.  The videos qualify for CPD in Saskatchewan and may qualify for CPD in other jurisdictions as well.

Blog articles related to artificial intelligence are amongst our highest read articles.

In case you missed it, here is a collection of loss prevention posts focused on artificial intelligence to help you better manage your practice and avoid errors:

While it may seem obvious that misuse of trust funds ought to be avoided and could be easily avoided, claims in this area do occur and can result in high value losses for clients.

This month, we have gathered videos related to the most recent risks and advice related to AI, including the risks surrounding the emergence of agenic AI, how to properly inform your clients of AI and technology use in a retainer agreement, and how to better prompt AI to minimize errors:

Matthew Coleman has been contributing to the CLIA blog since 2025. Matthew is a graduate of the University of New Brunswick (B.A. 2016 and J.D 2023).

In this item, two new AI / legal services considerations:

CLIA is proud to partner with the Law Society of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Lawyers’ Insurance Association (SLIA) to present Bite Size CPD.  

Bite Size CPD are short, under 12-minute CPD videos, covering a variety of topics including cybersecurity, wellness, practice management, client management, and more.  

Potentially privacy-compromising metadata such as hidden comments from reviewers, revision marks from tracked changes, details about the author, date when a document was created, headers, footers, watermarks, hidden text, or even custom XML data can easily be cleared from a document.

Mistakes can and do happen in the legal profession. When they happen, having the insight to recognize the error and then begin taking steps to mitigate the problem is an important skill. There are likely many ways to tackle the problem, but also some which should be avoided. The two worst options available are to pretend the error didn’t happen or make attempts to cover the mistake.

CLIA is proud to partner with the Law Society of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Lawyers’ Insurance Association (SLIA) to present Bite Size CPD.

A common category of malpractice claims is ignorance of the law. These claims arise when a lawyer does not know or misses a critical aspect of the law, misapplies it, or gives incorrect legal advice.

A recent decision from the British Columbia Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal (BC WCAT) considered whether any weight should be afforded to a self-represented party’s written submissions that were admitted to having been prepared with the assistance of AI.

CLIA is proud to partner with the Law Society of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Lawyers’ Insurance Association (SLIA) to present Bite Size CPD.

Lawyers are busy, a colloquialism if ever there was one.

And it is because you are busy that you refer a lot of work to your staff – assistants, paralegals, law clerks and yes, articling students.

We previously discussed the many AI hallucination cases coming up across Canada in our past blog post, What Do We Know from the Courts’ Comments on Improper Use of AI?, including the case Ko v Li, 2025 ONSC 2065. Since reporting on this case, the matter has escalated and has been referred to the attorney general for criminal contempt proceedings.

The responsibilities of legal support staff are as diverse as the lawyers they work with. From legal assistants to paralegals and law clerks, each role contributes uniquely to the success of the firm or legal department. While specific titles and duties may differ, one constant remains: support staff play an essential part in any legal practice.