In the next 1 - 5 years, I think natural language processing is going to really start identify
where human lawyers provide real value.
Not exact matches
«We've ev en seen cases
where women were handcuffed to their hospital beds,» said Maria Beatriz Galli,
human rights
lawyer and Latin American policy associate for Ipas.
Mainly, because in all the verbiage about freedoms of beliefs there is something so important, so blatantly acute yet everyone do not even mention it, except - oh genial me: Why would anyone in the whole world support any type of creed / belief / religion
where a whole lot of
humans — as in millions of
human women — are not allowed to go to school, to even just read and write - less become a teacher, doctor,
lawyer, president of their own companies, their own countries, mutilated by the millions when they reach puberty, WHY is this allowed?
There's a concerning report coming out of Nairobi, Kenya
where a
human rights
lawyer with the organization International Justice Mission, named Willie Kimani, was reportedly abducted after leaving a courthouse.
Colombia I've got a real passion to work against Colombia's appalling
human rights conditions,
where the government will just publically declare that the opposition leaders or trade unionists must be terrorists... literally thousands of people —
human rights activists,
lawyers, journalists, university lecturers, peasant farmers, anybody who speaks out about the regime — find themselves assassinated.
The Superior Court of Justice applied Grant v. Torstar in Vigna v. Levant, released on Thursday,
where Giacamo Vigna, a
lawyer for the Canadian
Human Rights Tribunal, sued Ezra Levant for allegedly defamatory postings on his blog.
She was talking about «
lawyering in the AI age» and touched on «predictive policing»
where the computer is used to predict
human behaviour.
The wife of a detained Chinese
human rights
lawyer is planning a 12 - day walk from Beijing to the city
where she believes her husband may be imprisoned.
Where, though, Kevin, did you ever get the idea that
lawyers were
human beings and / or possessed of any detectable degree of integrity?
As is the case with AI, the other major innovation of our age, we are still far away from a time
where the technology is ready to completely replace the complex and multi-faceted roles of the
human lawyer.
I think the problems of bill - padding and double - billing likely pales in comparison to (1) the expense incurred by parties because of
lawyers making overconfident recommendations to embark on misguided litigation
where those recommendations happen to coincide with the interest of the attorney to bill more hours; and (2) the excessive billing caused by law - firm technological and
human - resources inefficiencies that regularly result in the wheel being reinvented at client expense.
In Opinion 820, the Committee held that a
lawyer «may use an e-mail service provider that conducts computer scans of e-mails to generate computer advertising,
where the e-mails are not reviewed by or provided to
human beings other than the sender and recipient.»
Antony is ranked in Chambers Global 2017 for Business and
Human Rights Law,
where he is described as «an outstanding
lawyer in this area».
One of the first occasions
where robot
lawyers beat their
human counterparts happened in October 2017, in the UK.
«Of course, the
human rights
lawyers thought they knew
where the line was, too.
Glass, then, is kind of a legal Rorschach test:
where you stand on his admissibility likely depends on your view of the possibility of
human redemption, rehabilitation and the role of the
lawyer in society.
In a climate
where public demand for businesses to operate responsibly is growing and clients» demands for understanding the relevance and applicability of
human rights principles and legislation to their business operations increase, the IBA Practical Guide is designed to help business
lawyers around the world fulfil these demands.
According to
human rights and criminal defence
lawyer Aamer Anwar funding cuts are leading to the «creation of a two - tier justice system»
where «the poorest and most vulnerable are no longer guaranteed the right to a defence or legal advice».
Joel is a
lawyer with Williams HR Law,
where he practices management side labour, employment and
human rights law.
As a
lawyer, one of the things you should be thinking about is: Is there work that you're doing that just seems high - volume, highly repetitive, actually needs to be done accurately because, in some cases, a computer may be better at doing a high - accuracy demanding task than a
human is, especially
where it's high - volume.
Self - represented applicants at the
Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario have raised the issue of bias directly or indirectly through expressed concerns about
lawyers on the Tribunal's practice advisory committee appearing for respondents: see Guilmoutdinov v. Ontario College of Teachers (2009 HRTO 2130), for example,
where the adjudicator noted that advisory committees were frequently used by tribunals to promote responsiveness to the communities they serve and concluded that membership on the committee did not create a reasonable apprehension of bias.
Lawyers of a certain age will remember a case of the British Columbia Court of Appeal called Vander Zalm v. Times Publishers,
where then - Minister of
Human Resources for B.C., Bill Vander Zalm, was the subject of a scathing political cartoon drawn by Robert Bierman, depicting Vander Zalm happily pulling the wings off flies.
In his first year of law school Peter was selected to be an accredited delegate to the United Nations
Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland where he, along with a small group of lawyers, strategically lobbied country delegates on human rights and social justice is
Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland
where he, along with a small group of
lawyers, strategically lobbied country delegates on
human rights and social justice is
human rights and social justice issues.
Miriam Anbar is an employment
lawyer at Rodney Employment Law
where she handles a broad spectrum of workplace matters, including wrongful dismissals, employment standards, workplace investigations,
human rights and occupational health and safety.
After doing a trial run some months ago, I will be producing a Law Review Weekly highlighting interesting legal news from the press and the profession, links to important judgments handed down in the previous week, commentary and analysis from the law blogs, a link to my recent Lawcasts (and podcasts done by other
lawyers,
where available) and a section on the
human condition to look at the more surreal and bizarre happenings in law.
Such constructive engagement is a precious encouragement not only for me as a scholar but for anyone who wishes to see the largely «separate epistemic communities» of international criminal
lawyers and
human rights
lawyers join forces in attempts to explore how each field can contribute to «making the world a better place for people», and
where the limitations of their fields lie.
And
where the
human imagination goes,
lawyers are soon to follow.
Likewise, legal structure — long dominated by the pyramidal, profit - per - partner (PPP) model — is being replaced by a flat corporate structure
where lawyers are but one of many resources —
human and technological — deployed to solve business challenges that raise legal issues.
«A smart contract is one
where that thing that we just said is going to happen automatically instead of a
human reading it, instead of a
lawyer causing it to happen.
View all articles by Suzanne Lucas on CBS MoneyWatch» Suzanne Lucas spent 10 years in corporate
human resources,
where she hired, fired, managed the numbers and double - checked with the
lawyers.