6 episodes

OsgoodePD is Canada’s leading provider of continuing legal education to lawyers and senior professionals.

Strictly Legal, an Osgoode Professional Development podcast, is about all things legal. Each episode, we unpack current issues affecting the legal landscape with the help of some of the industry's leading thinkers.

Strictly Legal - An OsgoodePD Podcast All things legal podcast by OsgoodePD

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OsgoodePD is Canada’s leading provider of continuing legal education to lawyers and senior professionals.

Strictly Legal, an Osgoode Professional Development podcast, is about all things legal. Each episode, we unpack current issues affecting the legal landscape with the help of some of the industry's leading thinkers.

    Strictly Legal - Episode 12: Jinyan Li discusses the Tax Law LLM

    Strictly Legal - Episode 12: Jinyan Li discusses the Tax Law LLM

    Jinyan Li, the program director of the Tax Law LLM at OsgoodePD, discusses why she was interested in teaching at Osgoode, how tax law is evolving and why students should still care.

    • 15 min
    Strictly Legal - Episode 11: The Impact of AI & Machine Learning in Canada's Legal System Part 2

    Strictly Legal - Episode 11: The Impact of AI & Machine Learning in Canada's Legal System Part 2

    Guests: Jimmy Chan and Ayazhan Zhakhan, co-founders Castodia Inc.

    A lot of companies focus on building and deploying AI & machine learning systems but fewer worry about whether they perform as intended in a way that is free of bias, prejudice and errors that affect end users. In this episode of Strictly Legal, our guests, Jimmy Chan and Ayazhan Zhakhan, founders of Castodia Inc., talk about ethical AI, Instilling Canadian values in AI, and designing machine learning systems that could be worthy of implicit trust. They draw from their experience in building software that monitors and alerts developers about issues in their machine learning models so that organizations can act accordingly. This podcast highlights Canada's Directive on Automated Decision Making and other Canadian and international initiatives, strategies, voluntary guidelines dedicated to addressing these issues in whole or in part.

    • 39 min
    Strictly Legal - Episode 11: The Impact of AI & Machine Learning in Canada's Legal System Part 1

    Strictly Legal - Episode 11: The Impact of AI & Machine Learning in Canada's Legal System Part 1

    Guests: Jimmy Chan and Ayazhan Zhakhan, co-founders Castodia Inc.

    A lot of companies focus on building and deploying AI & machine learning systems but fewer worry about whether they perform as intended in a way that is free of bias, prejudice and errors that affect end users. In this episode of Strictly Legal, our guests, Jimmy Chan and Ayazhan Zhakhan, founders of Castodia Inc., talk about ethical AI, Instilling Canadian values in AI, and designing machine learning systems that could be worthy of implicit trust. They draw from their experience in building software that monitors and alerts developers about issues in their machine learning models, so that organizations can act accordingly. This podcast highlights Canada's Directive on Automated Decision Making and other Canadian and international initiatives, strategies, voluntary guidelines dedicated to addressing these issues in whole or in part.

    • 26 min
    Strictly Legal- Episode 10: Identity Verification for the Legal Profession

    Strictly Legal- Episode 10: Identity Verification for the Legal Profession

    While the majority of industries are welcoming and adopting the technological innovations that are revolutionizing the way Canadian businesses operate, legal services providers have been typically reluctant to rely on digital channels to identify and verify client identity. However, all of this is changing with a new service by SecureKey, called Verified.Me.

    In this podcast, Greg Wolfond, CEO of SecureKey talks about what legal professionals need to be aware of the specific solutions that are available to help them to verify the identity of their clients. He talks about how digital verification through Verified.me allows for the streamlining of processes, allowing clients to securely prove they are who they say they are on a strict timeline and through an efficient workflow.

    Verified.Me for the Legal Profession: https://verified.me/law/

    • 29 min
    Strictly Legal - Episode 9: The Justice We Seek | Part II

    Strictly Legal - Episode 9: The Justice We Seek | Part II

    Eliott shares details of his experience prosecuting war crimes, about how the crimes involving ethnic cleansing in Kosovo in 1999, of mass murder, forced deportation, massive sexual assault all informed his view of justice.

    He talks about his book “Tell it to the World” and the relationship between the justice we seek and the injustices that we commit.

    • 33 min
    Strictly Legal - Episode 9: The Careers We Make | Part I

    Strictly Legal - Episode 9: The Careers We Make | Part I

    Eliott Behar, author of Tell it to the World, sits down with us to explain why he thinks legal education is still very valuable.

    Eliott began a distinguished legal career as a Crown Prosecutor in Toronto and in 2013 moved to Silicon Valley to work for Apple, where he oversaw global investigations into cybercrime and international fraud and theft.

    • 23 min

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