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Canadian Law and Technology Research Assistant

By Gareth Spanglett

The Canadian Law and Technology Research Assistant  is crafted to serve as a highly specialized assistant for legal research in Canadian internet and technology policy and public interest law. It's designed to support upper-year law students and legal professionals, focusing on topics such...

07 Jan 2024 01:43 PM - Comment(s)

Pre-Mediation Guide

By Gareth Spanglett

To demonstrate how generative AI can be used in the legal sphere, I have started building assistive tools for the legal community.


The "Pre-Mediation Guide" custom GPT is designed to assist clients (instead of lawyers or mediators) prepare for an upcoming mediation.  It actively listen...

07 Jan 2024 01:29 PM - Comment(s)

iDissent browser extension improves legal research on CanLII

By Gareth Spanglett

This neat browser extension was made to improve legal research in CanLII.  It adds a table of contents based on headers, and works particularly well with SCC decisions.  It is available for Chrome (and Chrome variants like Brave), Edge, and Firefox browsers.


The extension is the work of two...

03 Jan 2023 03:54 PM - Comment(s)

Zotero Styles for McGill (Canadian Legal) Style, 9th ed.

By Gareth Spanglett

I have recently finished a Zotero stylesheet for Canadian legal citations and bibliographies. It is compliant with the McGill Style Guide (9th ed) and available in both English and French versions.

This is an open-source, free project to support the Canadian legal community.  I would like to ack...

04 Oct 2020 09:53 AM - Comment(s)

Initial Thoughts on Costs of A Virtual Law Frim

By Gareth Spanglett

Minimize recurring costs - the price of convenience is often not worth the premium price.
09 Sep 2020 07:19 PM - Comment(s)