Lexum
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre

Lexum’s Approach to Automatic Classification of Case law: From Statistics to Machine Learning

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

Lexum
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

Lexum
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Lexum
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre

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

Lexum
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Lexum
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Lexum
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre

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

Lexum
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre

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

Lexum
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre

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

Lexum
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre

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