One of the Law Society’s strategic objectives is to assess the opportunities and challenges that artificial intelligence creates, understand how AI will affect the legal system, and adopt responsive regulatory processes, training and education.
The Law Society’s goals are:
- to ensure effective tools are in place to support the appropriate use of AI by the legal profession,
- reduce practice infractions related to AI, and
- increase the public’s access to legal services from trusted, AI based sources.
The Law Society has engaged external consultants Lawrence Alexander and Allan P. Seckel, KC to help advance these strategic objectives. They provided an in-depth presentation to the Benchers and staff on April 17, 2026, in which they discussed the categories of users of AI in the legal profession, risks to the public that potentially result from the use of AI and potential regulatory responses and strategies.
Watch the presentation below:
Resources for the legal profession
Guidance on Professional Responsibility and Generative AI
This practice resource aims to help lawyers consider the use of generative AI tools in their legal practice. The guide covers potential issues associated with using AI, such as competence, confidentiality, information security, fraud, plagiarism and copyright.
Generative AI: What lawyers need to know
This article by the Lawyers Indemnity Fund outlines areas of consideration when using AI, including client confidentiality, inaccurate results, biased results, cybersecurity and fraud.
Practice advisors
Lawyers who would like to discuss specific issues regarding their ethical and professional obligations in connection with the use of generative AI can contact a practice advisor.
Podcast episodes
How AI is powering legal research at CanLII, published in April 2026
Learn how CanLII is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to help simplify and optimize legal research with its new AI research tool, Search+. We chat with Francis Barragan, President and CEO of CanLII and Emma Elliott, Vice President of Operations at Lexum, the firm that developed Search+. They explain what problems the tool solves, how it actually works and how it differs from other AI tools that are more prone to hallucinations or errors. We also walk through a couple of live demos with real-life prompts, demonstrating the power of the tool to analyze and score results based on relevancy.
AI and the practice of law, published in June 2025
We invited guest speakers Jon Festinger, KC and Robert Diab to chat about the ways that AI has been used to help practice law, the risks in using AI tools and how AI could potentially change how people access legal services. Jon and Robert were working on a course together on AI, Law and Justice at Thompson Rivers University.