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By Theo TalallaStudent Caseworker During the last federal election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney committed to reaching Canada’s NATO defence spending target of 2% of GDP, a goal that had eluded multiple prior governments. By March 2026, the government announced that it had reached this target. In addition to serving defence and security goals, the…
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By Maroun YounessStudent Caseworker In the days leading up to my first office hour as a Student Caseworker with the uOttawa Startup Law Clinic, I spent time reviewing the information and documents the startup founder had shared with the Clinic, researching the issues I thought might come up, and preparing questions to help guide the…
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By Richard Moshenski-DubovStudent Caseworker As I prepare for my upcoming office hours meeting with a startup founder, I have been thinking about how I can take what I have learned over the past two and a half years of law school and my short summer of experience working at a corporate and securities boutique in…
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By Doug Sarro I’m thrilled to introduce our new team of student caseworkers, who bring a range of experiences in private law practice, innovation, and public policy. This fall, they will be offering legal information to individual founders and founding teams, as well as presenting to the public on legal issues that come with launching…
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La Juriclinique pour entreprises en démarrage de l’Université d’Ottawa a le plaisir de publier son rapport d’activité de 2025. Aucours de trimester de l’automne, nos étudiantes et étudiants chargés de dossiers ont travaillé dur pour servir la communauté innovante d’Ottawa et d’ailleurs. Voir le rapport ci-dessous :
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The uOttawa Startup Law Clinic is pleased to publish its Activity Report for 2025. Over the fall semester, our student caseworkers have worked hard to serve the innovation community in Ottawa and beyond. See below for the report:
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By Areesha ArshadStudent Caseworker AI-assisted legal tools have improved efficiency in routine business tasks like contract generation and ensuring early-stage compliance. But their rise has uncovered a structural deficit in Canada: Compared to foreign jurisdictions, Canadian small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) face a lack of reliable, jurisdiction-specific legal AI tools. As of 2021, Canada…
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By Victoria Zbrzezniak Student Caseworker As the clinic winds down its office hours with startup founders, we are turning our attention toward one of the next phases of the clinic’s work: researching and developing policy papers that dive deeper into the questions and challenges we heard about firsthand. In speaking with my fellow student caseworkers,…
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By Ella LimStudent Caseworker For the past two months, the student caseworkers at the uOttawa Startup Law Clinic spoke to over 15 founders and entrepreneurs in Ottawa and in the Greater Toronto Area. During these calls, a common theme of question was related to employment—Is it legal to hire unpaid interns or student volunteers? What…
