The legal sector is changing. Law firms face growing pressures to provide more cost-effective services. Governments, industries and citizens are struggling with making evidence-based decisions on the basis of more and increasingly complex legal information. Legal expertise remains scarce, expensive and inaccessible resulting in a large unmet demand for legal services and an access-to-justice gap. Technology offers novel solutions to deal with these challenges.
The uOttawa Legal Tech Lab engages in a range of activities including:
- conducting cutting-edge research on legal text mining and the automation of legal processes,
- promoting legal technology education, including online through http://www.datascienceforlawyers.org/
- serving as partner for researchers, law firms and legal technology companies in Ottawa and around the world;
- acting as incubator to promote legal technology entrepreneurship, in particular among uOttawa students.
