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2018 marked an incredible year of rapid growth and widespread adoption for Blue J. To celebrate another year of success, we’ve recounted a few notable highlights:
Thanks to the rise of companies focused on using AI to streamline legal work and deliver better results, investors and VCs are increasingly turning their attention to the legal tech space. Startups who made it early out of the gate have seen ...
The round was led by Relay Ventures, with participation from US-based LDV Partners, and returning investors BDC Capital and Mistral Venture Partners. Mistral made an undisclosed investment Blue J Legal in May 2017, though at the time the firm ...
Blue J Legal, a Toronto, Canada-based machine learning and artificial intelligence legal service, raised US$7m in a Series A financing. The round was led by Relay Ventures, with participation from LDV Partners, and returning investors Mistral ...
The Justice Department has quietly launched an artificial intelligence experiment as the Trudeau government prepares to use such sophisticated software to help make decisions in cases involving immigration, pension benefits and taxes.
Employment Foresight, a software developed by Blue J Legal in Toronto, uses machine learning to identify hidden patterns in judicial rulings of past cases, which then helps human resources professionals, crown counsels and other professionals ...
Machine learning is now able to analyze court decisions and predict how judges may respond in certain situations, based on an analysis of existing caselaw. Artificial intelligence technology is currently available to analyze tax and employment ...
“My co-founders and I already had the idea for Blue J when I became a judge for the Watson challenge, a student competition using IBM’s AI technology. That was the catalyst. I’m a law professor at U of T, so after the challenge, I ran a course ...
With the impending legalization of recreational marijuana in Canada and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, times are changing for Canadians. Different as they may seem, these developments have something surprising in common...
As we approach the end of Blue J Tax’s first year on the market, we would like to share a glimpse of the impact of our technology to date. Below are some statistics on who uses Blue J Tax, what types of legal issues they are researching, ...
About three years ago I became completely fascinated by what is going to be happening in the law over the course of the next several decades. It all started innocently enough in December 2014. As associate dean at the University of Toronto ...
Toronto startup Blue J Legal has launched new artificial intelligence software to help predict how courts would resolve employment law issues. Mark Le Blanc, general counsel at educational public broadcaster TVO, says the software “doesn’t give ...