Senior Counsel
August 8, 2025
For the past decade, lawyers adopting best practices in technology-assisted review (TAR) have been guided by one overriding concern: defensibility. Their workflows were built to withstand judicial scrutiny as prescribed by the rules, case law and the Sedona Canada Principles.
That risk-averse approach serves its purpose. But it also entrenches a mindset that treated technology as a liability to be justified rather than as a capability to be unleashed. Today, generative AI invites us once again to shift our professional perspective from defensive compliance to proactive ethical design.
Beyond Defensibility: Toward Trustworthy AI Systems
In the world of generative AI, “defensibility” will no longer need to be treated as a constraint.… Read More

