Over the last few months Lexum has been contacting labour unions and professional associations, discussing how its Qweri solution for text-heavy documents can improve the handling of their collective bargaining agreements (CBA). Labour union staff includes many power-users of legal information websites operated by Lexum, such as CanLII, but only recently did Lexum launch an […] 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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And Lexbox Enters the Ring…
There is a lot of hype right now about legal tech start-ups proposing disruptive innovations in the hope of transforming the legal profession, and legal research in particular. Although Lexum probably doesn’t qualify as a start-up anymore, we decided it was time for us to try something out as well. For the last few months […] Read more
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Keeping Track of Freely Available Legal Information
Websites providing free access to legal information have come to play a major role in the day-to-day work of legal practitioners. For a majority of Canadian lawyers legal, research now starts with free access websites and is completed by the use of commercial databases only when required. No wonder that the CanLII website serves between 200,000 […] Read more
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Supporting Accessibility with WCAG 2.0 Level AA Compatibility
This fifth blog post in a series of five is the sequel to “Creating mobile friendly website”. Facilitating the publishing process is not the only benefit resulting from an optimal usage of Microsoft Word. Surprisingly enough, it can also contribute to generating more accessible files, in other words, files readable online by persons with disabilities. […] Read more
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Creating Mobile-Friendly Websites
This fourth blog post in a series of five is the sequel to “Extracting Metadata From the Body of Documents”. Another unexpected advantage of structured data is the flexibility it provides in relation with online display. The popularity of the mobile web has contributed to multiplying the number of devices of various screen sizes accessing […] Read more
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Extracting Metadata From the Body of Documents
This third blog post in a series of five is the sequel to “Converting Word files for the Web”. Getting usable HTML and PDF files out of original Word documents is one of the first steps to take in the operation of a legal information website, but it is not enough in itself. In addition […] Read more
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Converting Word Files for the Web
This second blog post in a series of five is the natural sequel to “Making the Most Out of Word Templates and Styles”. Generating cleaner, more structured Word files is one thing. Converting them into file formats adapted for the web is another. Legal information websites require HTML and PDF versions that need to be […] Read more
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Making the Most Out of Word Templates and Styles
This blog post is the first of a series of five addressing the question: how far can legal information providers go by building upon Word files? This content is part of a paper to be presented at the 2014 Law via the Internet Conference to be held in Cape Town from September 30th to October […] Read more
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Blending In: Lexum’s Approach to Cloud-Based Services
13.05.2014 Tags: Others Blending In: Lexum’s Approach to Cloud-Based ServicesPierre-Paul LemyreDirector of Business Development, Lexum Abstract. This paper contemplates how legal information providers can truly benefit from cloud computing. It shows how the main technological needs of decision-making bodies, governing bodies, publishers, and LIIs can be met by Lexum’s distinctive SaaS approach... Read more
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Is a Wind of Change Blowing Through the Quebec Government?
13.05.2011 Tags: Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Open source Free Software Is a Wind of Change Blowing Through the Quebec Government? by Pierre-Paul Lemyre Five years ago, I coordinated a series of meetings with IT managers within the Quebec Government. I met with senior administrators, business analysts, and software team leaders from all over the administration, ranging from the […] Read more