Law firms · Québec City, QC

Private AI for law firms in Québec City

Québec City law firms and in-house legal teams work inside Québec’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 Québec asks of a law firm

Quebec’s private-sector privacy law was modernised ahead of most of the country and carries obligations the rest of Canada is still catching up to: a demonstrated need for the information, explicit purposes, and an expectation of privacy by design. Professional confidentiality is regulated separately by the Barreau du Québec, whose code applies on top.

Because Quebec practice is a civil-law system, the sources a firm researches are also different — the Civil Code and provincial statutes are French originals, and a tool that reads them as translations starts at a disadvantage.

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Québec City’s legal reality

Quebec City is the seat of the National Assembly and the province’s courts, so its bar leans to government, insurance, civil litigation and notarial practice.

Work is overwhelmingly in French, and the source texts — the Civil Code, provincial statutes, insurer wordings — are French originals rather than translations.

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 Québec City 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 Québec City 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

Québec City 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

What extra obligations does Quebec’s privacy law impose on a law firm?

Quebec’s modernised private-sector statute asks for a demonstrated need, explicit and stated purposes, and privacy protection designed in from the start — obligations several other provinces are still phasing in. Professional confidentiality under the Barreau du Québec applies on top.

Can Digby work from French source documents in Quebec?

Yes — it reads and answers in French, which matters here because the Civil Code and provincial statutes are French originals rather than translations.

What does Digby cost for a Québec City 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.