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Lexum is in the midst of a project which will add 1600 historical decisions to the Surpeme Court of Canada Decisions website . Decisions to be added will start in 1947 and work their way back to reach the total of additional decisions. Further, decisions from 1970 to 2011 will see their PDFs replaced with scans of the side-by-side decisions as published in the original Supreme Court Reports. All this... Read more

A few weeks ago, Lexum invited users of the Lexum – Supreme Court of Canada Decisions’ website to participate in a survey to help improve the site. With over 800 participants, precious feedback was provided which will serve to guide improvements to be brought to the site throughout 2012. Some findings were anticipated: the vast majority of users are found to be lawyers. Other responses were slightly... Read more

Lexum is proud to announce the conclusion of an agreement with the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) , a federal Crown corporation with the mandate to promote efficient and effective standardization in Canada. Lexum will provide the SCC with a customized version of its LexCrawl web crawler software module in order to support the SCC staff in its monitoring of references to standards embodied in the... Read more

Lexum's hyperlinking tool is back, with a new look and a new name: LexHub . LexHub turns legislative and case law citations in your documents into hyperlinks which lead to the source documents on CanLII. It couldn't be easier to use: upload your document, click "submit", and LexHub returns your documents with the citations hyperlinked. And best of all, it's completely free! Click here to try it today... Read more

Next week, the Oyez Oyez team at Lexum will be at the 2011 FQM presenting its collection of services for managing public municipal documents. Read more

For the past couple of weeks already, the LexFind search engine has been deployed on the CLEBC website. CLEBC clients now benefit from advanced search features for all the continuing legal education material of interest to them: practice manuals, case digests, training material and webinars, online store, practice notes and CanLII. The LexFind technology indexes all of these databases uniformly even... Read more

Lexum is getting ready for the Association of Municipalities of Ontario's Annual Conference , held in London, Ontario, from August 21st to 24th. We're happy to announce that we'll be taking this opportunity to launch the Ontario version of the Lexum-designed service for municipalities, Oyez Oyez. Stop by our booth for a demo, more info or some cool give-aways! In the meantime, be sure to check out the Quebec version of the service at qc.oyezoyez.ca. Read more

In a world dominated by electronic decisions, Mr. Pelletier discusses how these should be cited, and offers an overview of the changes in this field in the past few year. [ Read article here ] Read more