Law firms · Winnipeg, MB

Private AI for law firms in Winnipeg

Winnipeg law firms and in-house legal teams work inside Manitoba’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 Manitoba asks of a law firm

Manitoba firms answer to the Law Society of Manitoba’s rules on confidentiality and to the Personal Information Protection and Private Documents Act as private organisations. The professional duty is the one that matters most: the client’s information is not the firm’s information.

Bilingual practice adds a second dimension — the same duty applies whether the file is in English or in French, and a tool that only handles one well is half a tool.

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Winnipeg’s legal reality

Winnipeg’s bar serves a province that is genuinely bilingual in law and administration, with strong practices in family, Aboriginal, labour and agricultural law.

Drafting in both official languages, and finding the right precedent in either, is a routine cost that compounds.

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 Winnipeg 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 Winnipeg 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

Winnipeg 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

Do Manitoba lawyers have to be able to work in both English and French with AI?

Confidentiality obligations apply equally in either language, and a great deal of Manitoba legal work is bilingual. Digby answers in the language you ask in and can work from French source documents rather than translated copies.

What should a Manitoba firm check before using AI on client files?

Where the information is stored, who can reach it, whether it can be deleted, and how you would explain each of those to a client. If a vendor cannot answer all four, that is your answer.

What does Digby cost for a Winnipeg 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.