Law firms · Vancouver, BC

Private AI for law firms in Vancouver

Vancouver law firms and in-house legal teams work inside British Columbia’s own rules. Digby answers from your documents with the passage attached, keeps stored data in Canada, and runs the models on Canadian-located hardware — so the answer is checkable and the question “where does it go” has a short reply.

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What British Columbia asks of a law firm

A law firm in British Columbia is a private organisation under the Personal Information Protection Act, and separately bound by the Law Society of British Columbia’s rules of professional conduct on confidentiality and client records. Those are two different obligations that happen to point the same way: client information is held in trust, used only for the purpose it was given, and disclosed only where the law or the client requires it.

Solicitor-client privilege survives the tool. Putting a client file into any third-party system is a decision the lawyer makes and must be able to justify — which is why where the information is stored, and who can reach it, is a professional question here and not just an IT one.

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Vancouver’s legal reality

Vancouver pairs a national-firm presence with a deep bench of boutiques in film, ports and shipping, immigration and Indigenous law. Several practice groups work in more than one language and across time zones before lunch.

The pressure is throughput on document-heavy work — disclosure, contracts, policy review — where the value is finding the right passage fast and showing where it came from.

What Digby does — and what we do not claim

Digby does not give legal advice, does not replace a lawyer’s judgement, and must never be the only reader of a document that carries a deadline. It reads and retrieves; a human signs.

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Know-how Q&A
ask the firm’s own manual, precedents and standard forms a question and get the passage it came from.
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Matter-file reading
put a closed file in a project and ask what the retainer covered, what the limitation period was, what the client actually instructed.
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Contract review support
summarise a draft, list the unusual clauses, and flag where it departs from your standard wording, with the clause quoted.
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Research with sources
current statutes and regulations, with links a junior can check before the answer reaches a partner.

Where the data lives, and where the models run

Stored data — accounts, conversations, memory and files — sits in Canada, in AWS Canada Central (Montréal). The models that write answers run on NVIDIA GPU hardware located in Canada and operated from Canada. That second part is the one most vendors gloss: storage residency is not the same claim as inference residency, and for a Vancouver firm the difference is exactly the one a privacy review will ask about.

If the requirement is that nothing leaves infrastructure you control, Digby can be self-hosted with Docker Compose against any OpenAI-compatible model server. That is a different trade — you run it — and it is documented rather than implied.

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A sensible first month for a Vancouver firm

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Start with know-how, not matters
put the firm manual and standard forms in a project and let people ask about their own procedures first.
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Then one closed matter
a file already resolved, so the team can check the answers against the record.
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Write the rule down before opening it up
what may go in, what never does, who reviews an output before it is used.

Other Canadian cities

Vancouver firms and organisations often work across provincial lines, and the statute changes at the border. The same law firms material, set up for the next province over:

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Frequently asked questions

Is a British Columbia law firm allowed to put client documents into an AI tool?

The Law Society of British Columbia’s confidentiality rules require you to understand where the information goes and who can reach it. Many firms do use tools for research and drafting on non-privileged material first, and decide deliberately about client files — Digby keeps stored data in Canada and can be self-hosted so nothing leaves infrastructure you control.

Does PIPEDA apply to a BC law firm as well as the Law Society rules?

Both can apply. The Law Society rules are a professional duty that does not bend; PIPEDA covers the firm’s commercial handling of personal information. Where they overlap, the stricter obligation governs.

What does Digby cost for a Vancouver firm?

Free to start, billed in Canadian dollars: the entry point is CAD $0 and no account is needed to begin. For larger engagements — more seats, more volume or a dedicated deployment — pricing is set with you rather than listed here, so contact us and a person replies with a written number. Heavier features such as deep research have daily limits.