AI-Adjacent Modernisation: Keeping Tabs on Legal Information
Over the past year, a number of websites containing databases of valuable legal information have been redesigned. Among them are websites and services that are foundational to legal research in Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC), the Nova Scotia Courts, CanLII, HeinOnline, Lexis+, and more. While redesigns are not uncommon, the timing and consistency of these recent updates hint at something else, something shaped by trends in the broader digital environment. The rapid growth of generative AI has seemingly pushed legal research websites and services to modernise. Even without adopting AI, there’s growing pressure to look current and . . . [more]