Legal artificial intelligence · Québec and Canada
Your files stay with you: Jurisync analyzes them on your firm's own computer, searches Québec and Canadian public legal sources, and helps you meet your obligations.
Lavoie v. Transport Nord file
Chronology
To complete: the signed employment contract is not in the file.
Analyzed on this computer. Nothing was sent.
My client Jean Lavoie, SIN 123 456 789, was dismissed without notice after six years. What notice period should we claim?
Detected before sending
Version sent: “My client [Person 1], SIN [SIN masked], was dismissed without notice after six years…”
Nothing identifying leaves your firm.
Do I need a PIA before entrusting files to a tool hosted outside Québec?
Yes. Section 17 of the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector requires a privacy impact assessment before personal information is disclosed outside Québec, or before a third party outside Québec is entrusted with keeping or using it.
| Consumer tool Risk | Jurisync At the firm | |
|---|---|---|
| The file | Copied to a server, often outside Québec | Read on the firm's computer; nothing is sent |
| Law 25 | Assessment (PIA) required before sending | Privacy by default |
| The citation | ✗ “Lavoie v. Transport Nord, 2019 QCCS 98765”: does not exist | ✓ Art. 2091 C.C.Q., notice of termination: link verified |
| Who answers for it | You, for the invented citation | You review cited sources |
The problem
Pasting a file into a consumer tool discloses personal information to a third party, often outside Québec.
Law 25 then requires a privacy impact assessment. Professional secrecy remains entirely yours.
A decision that does not exist, cited in a pleading, engages your liability, not the tool's.
Your data
One rule guides Jurisync: nothing that identifies a client leaves your firm without your decision.
Analysis, chronology, draft documents
Legal questions, case law
Optional, off by default
On your computer
The model running on your computer is adapted to a firm's work, in French and English: reading a file, citing the page each fact comes from, dating events, saying what is missing rather than inventing it. You choose your areas of practice; the AI takes them into account and flags a file that falls outside them.
Adapted from public sources and fictitious cases, never from our clients' files.
New versions arrive remotely, signed by Jurisync. Your computer checks the signature before installing, once the firm approves the update. No one at Jurisync connects to your computer.
We have no access to your files, neither for updates nor for support.
Its version, its licence and its technical status: disk space, last backup, address on the firm's network.
Your documents, your questions, the AI's answers, your clients' names.
Law 25 and PIPEDA
Jurisync helps you meet your obligations; it does not meet them for you. Compliance remains the firm's responsibility. This page summarizes laws and is not legal advice.
You practise on your own
You run a firm
Access
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Questions
No, in private mode: processing happens on your computer or the firm's server. Only hybrid mode, off by default, sends pseudonymized text, and only if the firm's administrator turns it on.
No. Your files are never used to train a model, ours or anyone else's. The local AI is adapted to law before delivery, from public sources and fictitious cases; your areas of practice are set in your profile.
No. Your computer downloads the new signed version itself, checks the signature and installs it once approved. It sends us only its version and technical status, never a document.
Accounts and the log are hosted in Canada, in the Montréal region. Public research questions and, if turned on, the pseudonymized text of hybrid mode are processed by AI providers, some of them in the United States; the privacy policy names them.
No. Every answer cites its sources and says what remains to be checked. You review and approve everything that leaves your firm.
It helps you: local processing, privacy by default, roles, a log, limited retention. Compliance nonetheless remains the firm's responsibility.
On request only. We check your registration on your order's roll, then open your access. The 14-day trial starts at that point.
Guides
Legal AI, Law 25 and professional secrecy, explained plainly, with the official sources.
Using legal AI in Québec and Canada: Barreau rules, professional secrecy, Law 25, court notices and how to choose a tool, for lawyers and notaries.
Read the guideWhat Québec's Law 25 requires of a firm that uses AI: PIA, data leaving Québec (s. 17), provider contract, automated decisions, incidents and penalties.
Read the guideProfessional secrecy applies to AI tools: what Québec's Charter, the Act respecting the Barreau, the Code of ethics and the Barreau's AI guide say.
Read the guideHow to carry out the privacy impact assessment (PIA) that Québec's Law 25 requires before a law firm adopts an AI tool: steps and questions for the provider.
Read the guideWhat the rules for Québec notaries mean for AI: professional secrecy (Notaries Act, s. 14.1), competence, supervision of staff and Québec's Law 25.
Read the guideA question first? Write to support@jurisync.legal.