Canadian Legal Ethics: 2024 Unwrapped
What happened in Canadian lawyers’ ethics and legal services regulation in 2024? This column looks back on three high-profile areas of development. It also flags several major court cases and disciplinary proceedings from 2024, as well as cases to watch for the year ahead.
Three High-Profile Areas of Development
1. Generative AI and the delivery of legal services
AI was one of the big stories in 2023 and continued to be big in 2024.
The year started with a cautionary note: there were headlines about a British Columbia lawyer who had included non-existent cases – provided to her by ChatGPT . . . [more]