Panel
Dr. Amy Salyzyn is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa, and a Faculty member at the Center for Law, Technology and Society. Dr. Amy Salyzyn is an expert in the area of legal ethics, lawyer regulation, the use of technology in the delivery of legal services and access to justice. At the University of Ottawa, she teaches Torts as well as Dispute Resolution and Professional Responsibility in the first-year program. She also teaches an upper-year seminar in legal ethics.
Daniel W. Linna Jr. has a joint appointment at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and McCormick School of Engineering as a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Law and Technology Initiatives. Dan’s teaching and research focus on innovation and technology, including computational law, artificial intelligence, data analytics, leadership, operations, and innovation frameworks. Dan is also an affiliated faculty member at CodeX — The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. Dan received his BA from the University of Michigan, received a second BA and an MA in public policy and administration from Michigan State University, and graduated magna cum laude, Order of the Coif from the University of Michigan Law School. Dan began his legal career with a one-year judicial clerkship for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge James L. Ryan. After his clerkship, he joined Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, where he was elected equity partner in 2013. Before law school, Dan was an information technology manager, developer, and consultant.
Colin Lachance veered into a career in legal information and tech shortly after beginning his part-time University of Ottawa studies toward an LL.M. with a concentration in Law and Technology. Roles since 2011 included 4 years as CEO of CanLII, a couple of years on the executive committee of global legal publisher vLex, a bunch of legal tech advisory work, operating a legal data non-profit and more recently, building a legal AI startup, Jurisage, as a joint venture with leading Canadian applied AI studio, AltaML.
Ryan Fritsch is counsel with the Law Commission of Ontario. He leads law reform projects, including AI in the Criminal Justice System, modernized consumer protection in the digital marketplace, and Indigenous approaches to health law reform. Before joining the LCO, Ryan was legal counsel at the Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office and led Legal Aid Ontario’s Mental Health Strategy.
Moderator
Nye Thomas is the Executive Director of the Law Commission of Ontario. Nye is currently leading LCO projects on AI in the justice system, consumer protection, protection orders, and environmental accountability. Before this, Nye was Director General, Policy at Legal Aid Ontario, where he was responsible for policy, consultations, and planning at one of the world’s largest legal aid plans. Nye has also been Policy Director on major provincial inquiries, including the Ipperwash Inquiry.
