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About Amy Salyzyn

Amy Salyzyn is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Common Law. Amy received her LL.M. from Yale Law School and her J.D. from the University of Toronto Law School. In addition to legal ethics, Amy’s research focuses on gender and the law, law and technology and civil justice reform.

Posts by Amy Salyzyn

Modern Courts and the Need for Judicial Technological Competence

Against Supreme Lawyering

Are Canadian Law Societies Ready for the Legal Profession’s Me Too Moment? (Spoiler: Probs Not)

Celebrating Alice

At Whose Expense? the Intolerable Human Cost of Articling

Let’s Be Clear: The Case for Explicitly Banning Discriminatory Law Schools

See No Evil? Could “Innovation Waivers” Help Break Roadblocks to Reforming Legal Service Delivery?

Is the Law Society of Ontario Still Donating to Political Parties?

Who’s a Law Society For?

Women Know Who the Predators Are

Time for Technology Ethics Opinions in Canada?

Beware the Binders Full of Women (Judges)!

A Duty to Be Technologically Competent: Coming Soon to a Professional Code of Conduct Near You?

Cultural Competence and the Next Generation of Lawyers and Lawyer Regulation

Transparency Can Be Tricky: Questions About Solving the Lawyer Quality Information Gap

A Risky Appetite for Apps: Can Best Practices Help?

Indecent Proposal?: Whistleblowing and Putting a Price on Breaching the Rules of Professional Conduct

Apps and A2J: Mapping the Opportunities and Risks

Orphaned Again? the Place of Government Lawyers Within New Regulatory Paths

Should Lawyers Be Paid to Snitch on Their Clients? (Spoiler! No.)

Crikey! Warnings About Lawyer Independence From Across the Pond

Coaching Competence

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Some Lessons From South of the Border?

Law Society Complaints: What We Don’t Know and Why This Is a Problem

Bully Lawyers & Shoplifting Civil Recovery Letters: Who’s Going to Stop Them?

Technological Competence 101: Back to Basics?

The Real “Articling Crisis”?

Tackling Technology

Of Labels and Letterhead

Getting Ready: The Continuing Case for Technological Competence