For over 35 years, the Canadian Lawyers Insurance Association (CLIA) has worked to bring peace of mind to the lawyers in our subscriber jurisdictions and the clients they serve. We also want you to think of CLIA when in need of answers about your insurance or help with loss prevention.

In November 2023, we launched a blog, Not So Risky Business, to help. Every Wednesday you can expect an informative post on topics to better help you manage your practice, avoid errors and understand your insurance coverage needs. To receive these posts directly in your inbox, please subscribe!

Recent posts include:

British Columbia Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal Comments on Acceptable Use of AI

A recent decision from the British Columbia Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal (BC WCAT) considered whether any weight should be afforded to a self-represented party’s written submissions that were admitted to having been prepared with the assistance of AI. The submissions were given weight. Read the full blog.

The Wellness Docket – Leveraging Technological Change To Improve Work Environments: Will We Ever Learn?

*Erin H. Durant

Ever wonder what it was like practicing law before computers, email and the internet? If you take time to talk to lawyers and staff from that era, you will hear that everything moved at a slower pace and that lawyers and staff were rarely bothered when they were not physically in the office.  Retired Chief Justice of Ontario George Strathy reminisced about those “good old days” in his article “The Litigator and Mental Health”. He wrote:

…[W]hen I started practice, from about 1976 until email became common in the early 1990s, you could generally go home at night and not expect to receive phone calls or messages from work, unless something was urgent, like the office was on fire or a client had a real emergency. The same was true on weekends. You could go home on Friday afternoon or evening and reasonably expect that no one would bother you – neither a lawyer nor a client, until Monday morning.

That did not mean we did not work evenings or weekends – we did, when necessary – but it did mean that except during trials, evenings and weekends could be times for R & R, family times, and “me” times. And holidays were actually holidays – you could go away for two or three or four weeks and colleagues would cover for you.

Doesn’t that sound nice? Lawyers and their staff have very different experiences today. I have been working in law firms since 2010. A lot has changed since then and much of it has had a negative impact on lawyer and staff mental health. This blog reviews some challenges that technology has created in recent years for lawyers and staff and suggests a different, more intentional approach going forward as we enter the AI revolution. Read the full blog.

Knowing the Law – Setting Up Research Alerts

A common category of malpractice claims is ignorance of the law. These claims arise when a lawyer does not know or misses a critical aspect of the law, misapplies it, or gives incorrect legal advice. Examples include overlooking a legislative requirement or omitting a necessary step in a transaction. In some cases, the lawyer may not have known about a law or its recent amendment; in others, the law was known but not correctly applied.

The law can change quickly through new statutes, legislative amendments, or judicial decisions, and keeping current is essential in every practice area. One effective way to stay up to date is by setting up alerts through legal research tools. Many platforms, including CanLII, Westlaw, and LexisNexis, allow lawyers to create automated alerts to monitor developments in specific areas of law. Read the full blog.

Bite Size CPD March Showcase – Limitations, Delegation, and Succession

In this blog, we are showcasing Bite Size CPD videos related to helping you manage your practice more effectively, including videos related to keeping on top of limitations or other important deadlines, properly supervising and delegating work in your practice, and how to avoid missteps due to lack of succession planning in the event of an accident or illness. Read the full blog.

Posted: 10 April 2026