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What's the duty-to-mitigate threshold for a 14-year tenured VP of Sales under Ontario law?

Ontario courts apply the Red Deer College standard, but for long-tenure senior executives the bar sits noticeably higher — Peet v. Babcock and Lake v. La Presse treat an unreasonable two-to-three month search as the floor, not the rule.

For a 14-year VP with industry-specific compensation, courts have consistently credited six to nine months of search activity without reduction.

Peet v. Babcock & Wilcox2001 ONCA · 55 O.R. (3d) 321

Lake v. La Presse2022 ONCA · 2022 ONCA 742

Red Deer College v. Michaels1975 SCC · [1976] 2 S.C.R. 324

Working memory: Okafor⌘⏎ ExpandInsert into Factum

The thesis

Every legal AI tool is a chatbot bolted onto search. Curia is the opposite: a full workspace where research, documents, matter state, and draft output share the same memory.

We built it for defined jurisdictions, not a vague claim of covering all of Canada. Ontario and British Columbia case law, kept in the right provincial context. Because generic almost-correct is worse than specific and known.

Ask a question. Upload a statement of claim. Open a matter. Same workspace. Same context. No re-explaining who your client is across six tabs.

One matter, three surfaces

From “what's the law?” to a review-ready draft, in the same workspace.

Follow one real question as it moves through Curia: research grounded in Ontario or British Columbia cases, documents analyzed into the matter timeline, then drafted with live citations back to source.

Research

Ask a precise question in plain English.

Curia searches Canadian case law, court files and your own matter history. Answers cite specific decisions and show whether source text informed the analysis or still needs review.

R-2428 · Lindqvist12 results

Bardal v. Globe & Mail ONCA

Honda Canada v. Keays SCC

Lake v. La Presse ONCA

Peet v. Babcock & Wilcox ONCA

Analyze

Drop a document. It becomes part of the matter.

Statements of claim, IME reports, affidavits — Curia extracts issues, pulls dates into the timeline, flags contradictions, and threads everything through the matter file.

Statement_of_Claim.pdfparsed

3 causes of action extracted

11 dates to timeline

2 contradictions flagged

8 comparable cases queued

Draft

Write the factum with citations that actually exist.

Drafting opens with your matter's context already loaded. Ask for a damages section and get an editable draft with linked authorities, defensible quantum, and clear source-review cues.

Factum · Summary Judgmentv4

Parties §1–4 · complete

Facts §5–18 · complete

Issues §19–22 · complete

Relief sought · in review

Seven surfaces, one context

Every tool a litigator reaches for, sharing the same memory.

01 · Matters

A file drawer that thinks.

Every matter is a live workspace: timeline, documents, research sessions, drafts, and tasks under one spine. Ask “what do I need to do on Okafor this week?” — Curia knows.

Active matters · 144 urgent

Okafor v. Sentinel FreightDue todayR-2428

Lindqvist v. RiverstoneMediationR-2419

Estate of H. TremblayDiscoveryR-2406

BrightArc v. NovaSteelPleadingsR-2401

02 · Timeline

Every fact, on a line.

Dates pulled from documents and pleadings become a navigable matter timeline. Spot gaps before the other side does.

Mar 14, 2023

Collision · Hwy 407

Apr 02, 2023

First IME — Dr. Ng

Apr 20, 2026

Motion for summary judgment

May 14, 2026

Settlement conference

03 · Research

Ontario and BC law, paragraph-level.

No hallucinated citations. Every authority Curia returns exists, sits in its real context, and is one click from the source paragraph.

R-2428 · Duty to mitigateCase law

Lake v. La Presse2022 ONCA

Peet v. Babcock¶ 14–19

Evans v. Teamsters2008 SCC

04 · Drafting

Factum-quality, first pass.

Not autocomplete. Drafting writes structured work product with linked authorities and clear source-review cues for facta, letters, and memos.

Factum — Part II, Issues

The plaintiff submits that the threshold of “reasonable mitigation efforts” is a contextual inquiry Red Deer College, not a rigid proof of ninety-day outreach.

05 · Expert Attack

Break a bad IME.

Drop an expert report. Curia identifies methodological weaknesses, contradictions with the medical record, and cross-examination angles worth trying.

IME — Dr. Chen, MD4 issues

High

Methodology: no ICD-11 baseline documented before functional capacity assessment.

Med

Contradicts family physician record dated Aug 12 (pain diary).

06 · Damages Bank

Comparable awards, cross-referenced by facts — not just citations.

Search extracted court-award records by plaintiff profile, injury type, venue, and year. Curia shows the observed nominal-dollar distribution and links back to source decisions for verification.

Ontario · Mild TBI · Age 35–50 · 2022–2628 comparables

$280k — $420k

Low · $280kMedian · $340kHigh · $420k

07 · Judges

Who's on the bench — and which decisions Curia currently indexes.

Descriptive decision metadata across Ontario and federal jurists, with visible sample sizes, classification coverage, source decisions, and corpus limitations. The index does not predict future rulings.

Indexed decisions

148

Morishita J · ONSC

Outcome classified

91%

36-mo trailing

Source linked

139

n = 148 motions

Observed years

2014–26

avg., civil side

Specific, on purpose

Generic almost-correct is worse than specific and known.

Curia supports Ontario and British Columbia without flattening their differences. Research follows the jurisdiction you select, and specialized Ontario-only tools are labelled clearly before you use them.

i.
Ontario and BC case law, kept jurisdiction-aware.
Choose the province for your profile or matter. Curia keeps the research context and authorities tied to that jurisdiction.
ii.
Canadian case law and court files.
Citations return to the source decision, with clear indicators showing whether decision text informed the answer or still needs review.
iii.
Canadian data residency, SOC 2 in flight.
Your matters never leave Canadian cloud. Tenant-isolated. Legal professional privilege respected as a primitive, not a policy.
iv.
Ontario-only tools say so.
Judge intelligence, Ontario statutes, damages comparables, settlement workflows, and calculators retain precise coverage labels.

Pricing

Plans for every practice size.

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Answers before you ask.

Does Curia actually check its citations, or is this the usual hallucinated-case story?

Curia matches citations against Canadian case-law sources at response time. An unmatched citation is flagged and excluded from the authority list. Each authority links to the source decision, and its source status tells you whether decision text informed the answer or still needs review.

Which jurisdictions does Curia support?

Curia currently supports Ontario and British Columbia case-law research, plus federal authorities. Your profile and matters keep the selected province in context. Some specialized tools, including judge intelligence, Ontario statutes, damages comparables, settlement workflows, and calculators, are still Ontario-only and are labelled accordingly. Quebec is not currently supported.

Where does my matter data live?

Canadian cloud, tenant-isolated, encrypted at rest and in transit. Your data is never used to train shared models. SOC 2 Type II is in flight; DPA available for firms.

What does "workspace, not chatbot" mean in practice?

It means research, documents, timeline, and drafts are the same object, not three tools loosely connected. Ask Curia about a matter, and the answer is grounded in that matter’s documents and history — not a generic response you then copy into a separate drafting surface.

Is this going to replace my paralegal?

No. It’s going to give your paralegal an afternoon back. Curia compresses the rote parts of the work — citation gathering, timeline assembly, first-pass drafting — so the people on your team can work on the parts only they can do.

How accurate is "accurate enough"?

Every output is reviewable before it leaves the workspace. Drafting surfaces cite-by-cite sourcing. Research shows source-support indicators and linked authorities. Damages Bank shows the comparables behind its range. You’re always the signatory; Curia’s job is to produce a fast, transparent first pass.

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