Lexum focus has always been on using the latest technology to automate legal publishing with the goal of improving the cost/benefit ratio of accessing legal information. For this reason, we historically favoured full text search engines over classification systems based on a thesaurus. The manual labelling of judicial and administrative decisions is a labour-intensive process […] Read more
Author: Pierre-Paul Lemyre
Connecting Public and Private Legal Information Part IV: Integrate CanLII with your Practice Management Solution
Last May my colleague Ivan announced four upcoming major milestones in Lexum’s plan for getting started with legal Knowledge Management-as-a-Service. Early this summer we reported the transformation of Lexbox into a private document repository allowing you to search your own material straight from the CanLII website. Later we integrated our citator to insert links pointing […] Read more
Connecting Public and Private Legal Information Part III: Get Notified When your Field of Expertise Evolves
On August 26th, Lexbox benefited from a major update. Among the new features included in this release is the capacity to link to the CanLII website the legal citations from your documents, as discussed in last month’s post. We invite you to try it out by submitting a few of your own files to your […] Read more
Connecting Public and Private Legal Information Part II: Linking your Legal Citations to CanLII Material
A month ago, I introduced Lexum’s first step in providing Knowledge Management as a Service (KMaaS) via Lexbox. This development has made it possible for Lexbox users to start searching their own documents alongside the public legal information made available on the CanLII website. This post covers the upcoming release of the second feature tied […] Read more
How to Semi-Automate Typesetting to Save Time and Money
Typesetting is the operation consisting in setting the text onto a page so that it looks good. It originates from the printing world in which typographers initially had to arrange physical types (letters and symbols) to imprint them on paper. Obviously, this work is now completed digitally with the help of dedicated software such as […] Read more
Connecting Public and Private Legal Information
In a recent post Ivan Mokanov presented Lexum’s vision of providing Knowledge Management as a Service to the legal community. It is true that until now KM in the legal sector has been closely associated with expensive enterprise software only at the reach of law firms of a certain size. However, it is our belief […] Read more
Working on An Online System for your Court or Adjudicative Body? Connect it to Decisia for Easy Online Publishing
In the context of the current sanitary crisis, many courts, tribunals, and agencies are looking at solutions to quickly move a portion of their traditional activities to the online world. If you are working on or simply thinking about such a project, you are probably considering off-the-shelve options involving the least possible coding. So, when […] Read more
Automating the Entire Publishing Chain for Your Court or Agency Decisions
If your organization produces precedential judicial or administrative decisions, you are very aware that the work on a case doesn’t stop when the final decision is delivered to the parties. Once the docket has been updated via your Court/Case Management System (CMS), the decision rendered must still be published. This process often involves a webmaster, […] Read more
The Supreme Court of Canada Decisions’ Website Is Evolving
Some of you may have noticed that after over 25 years of being hosted exclusively under the Lexum domain at https://scc-csc.lexum.com, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) judgments are now also available under the Court’s own domain at https://decisions.scc-csc.ca. On top of the new URL, the database has been graphically integrated with the SCC institutional […] Read more
NMOneSoure 2.0: Open Access to New Mexico Legal Information is now Powered by Lexum
New Mexico is one of the few U.S. States where the official publishing of legislation and case law is centralized in the hands of a specialized enterprise agency, the New Mexico Compilation Commission (NMCC), created in 1941. Over the last fifteen years, the State of New Mexico has been its own self-publisher of its official laws. NMCC has been providing three distinct online […] Read more