Ten years ago, organizations looking to improve online access to their legal material were faced with the requirement to either adopt a generic product designed for non-legal documents, or to invest heavily in a bespoke solution. Many such legacy solutions are still in place today, although they have become somewhat outdated. Legal research is more […] Read more
Author: Pierre-Paul Lemyre
Pierre-Paul est un avocat, membre du Barreau du Québec, avec plus de 15 années d'expérience dans le domaine de la technologie juridique. Son expertise consiste à aider les organismes décisionnels et les régulateurs à amméliorer leur gestion et leur diffusion de l'information juridique. Il supervise toutes les activités de vente et de marketing de Lexum. Il bénéficie d'une forte expérience en coopération internationale, ayant été en charge des projets internationaux lorsque Lexum était un laboratoire de recherche universitaire. Il est également reconnu comme expert en matière de problématiques juridiques concernant les logiciels libres et ouverts.
Pierre-Paul is a lawyer, member of the Quebec Bar, with over 15 years of experience in the legal technology sector. His expertise consists in helping decision-making and regulatory bodies to improve the management and dissemination of their legal information. He supervises all of Lexum's sales and marketing activities. He has a strong background in international cooperation, having been in charge of international projects when Lexum was an academic research laboratory. He is also recognized as an expert on legal issues related to free and open source software.
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Lexum’s State Administrative Decisions Census Published in the NAALJ Journal
In October 2016 I announced preliminary results and findings from a survey of the status of online access to administrative decisions in the US. The formal paper resulting from this research project has just been made available in the latest issue of the Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary (NAALJ). The paper […] Read more
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Lemyre
What Users Do with Lexbox
Last year Lexum decided to explore a new approach aiming to improve legal research on free websites and making it easier to track over time. It resulted in the launch of Lexbox, a free Google Chrome extension designed to become your legal research workspace. Lexbox allows you to store links to searches, cases, legislation or […] Read more
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Lemyre
State Administrative Decisions Census
This post includes preliminary results and findings from a survey of the status of online access to administrative decisions in the US. This survey was conducted over the course of September 2016 and is based on and replicates the methodology developed by Sarah Glassmeyer for the State Legal Information Census published in 2015. The main […] Read more
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Lemyre
Why you Should Move Beyond PDF for your Technical Manuals
If you’re producing a reference document of some sort, whether it’s professional documentation, a product manual or collective agreements, you’re most likely making it available to your stakeholders in PDF format.You know you could do better, but you have stuck to PDF until now because a portion of your user base consistently tells you they […] Read more
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Lemyre
Host a Lexbox Webinar!
The attention paid to innovations in legal research has increased significantly and Lexbox is on the cutting edge of that trend. By partnering with legal associations around Canada, Lexbox is making its legal research expertise accessible through webinars. We are pairing with legal organizations of all size to educate members and participants on how to […] Read more
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Lemyre
Qweri: From Legal Publishing to Technical Publishing
Lexum started investing efforts into what would eventually become Qweri in response to the demand of online legal publishers in need of a better solution for the delivery of secondary legal information. It has become obvious that large PDF files are inadequate for the online publishing of complex text-heavy documents used as reference material. Read more
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Lemyre
Get it All Together!
This new post came close to being titled “Remember that file cabinet” in memory of that black or beige metal storage cabinet where for decades a senior partner had been accumulating short notes and printed cases related to the firm’s area of expertise. About 15 years ago, every firm had its own. It was a […] Read more
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Lemyre
What About Proactive Legal Research?
Let’s face it, legal research is something lawyers do in reaction to external events impacting their practice. In a typical case, you first get into it following a meeting with a client raising a new or unfamiliar issue. The client expects expert advice and sufficient knowledge to take a position and define a legal strategy. […] Read more
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Lemyre
How to Create your Own Dog Law Database
One thing that you learn while completing your first year of law school is that you have suddenly become the legal advisor of your close family. I can attest to the fact that spending over a decade developing legal technologies instead of providing legal advice does not lower the expectations of those around you. Family […] Read more