Sarah will be giving a talk titled “Using the Law as Data” at BIALL’s Annual Conference to be held June 12-14 in Leeds, UK. Here’s the session description: Players in the legal sector are looking for opportunities for leveraging data to improve their work and understanding. This work is anticipated to be transformational, generating new … Continued
Sarah gave a a talk titled “Can the chatbot write my factum? The future of legal research” at the CLEBC event on October 17 2023. Here’s the session description: Increasingly, the practice of law is influenced in various ways by technology and AI. The rise of data and the way it is managed by technology … Continued
Hosted by the Vancouver Association of Law Libraries October 3, 2023 | 12:00pm-1:00pm Location: Zoom Cost: FREE for VALL members, non-members, and students! Please join VALL for our inaugural substantive session of the 2023-24 season, featuring Sarah Sutherland discussing that hot topic: generative AI as a current and potential research tool for lawyers and law … Continued
Sarah will be giving a talk titled “Issues with Using Primary Law as Data” at Legal Service Corporation’s (LSC) Innovations in Technology Conference to be held January 19-21, 2023, in Phoenix, Arizona.
Sarah spoke on a panel titled “We’ve Got the Data – Now What?” as part of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters event on October 27, 2022. Here’s the session description: The Action Committee on A2J has been advocating for more national A2J data to support people-centred legal services. … Continued
Sarah gave an online seminar titles “Primary Law as Legal Data” at the Refugee Law Lab, based at York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies and Osgoode Hall Law School, on September 21, 2022. Here’s the session description: Researchers are looking for opportunities for leveraging the primary law as data. This work is anticipated to be … Continued
Sarah gave a talk titled “Issues with Using Primary Law as Data” at the Australian Law Librarians’ Association (ALLA) Conference in Hobart, Tasmania, on August 26, 2022. Here’s the session description: Researchers and developers are actively looking for opportunities for leveraging the primary law as data. This work is anticipated to be transformational for legal … Continued
Sarah gave a presentation titled “Primary Law as Data” at Continuing Legal Education Society of BC’s course Data Analytics for Lawyers 2022 on June 27, 2022. The session covered the following: what is law from a data perspective? how does the structure of the law and legal systems affect its use as data? so what … Continued
Sarah spoke on two panel presentations at the Canadian Association of Law Libraries Conference which was held online May 31 – June 4, 2022. The sessions covered the following: What’s it Worth? Rethinking the Value of Information Services & Professionals, presented with Kimberly Silk and Wendy Reynolds In a climate of increasing costs and diminishing … Continued