In the movie The Man with the Golden Gun, the Solex is a revolutionary device that is meant to solve the 1973 energy crisis. After killing its British inventor, an elite assassin steals the Solex to sell it to foreign powers. James Bond is dispatched to find the assassin and recover the precious device. Because […] Read more
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Marc-André
Morissette
Lexum
The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) acquires Lexum
The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) is pleased to announce the acquisition of Lexum Informatique Juridique Inc. (Lexum), a Canadian company that specializes in technology solutions for the publication and management of legal information online. Lexum has been CanLII’s strategic technology partner since CanLII’s inception. CanLII is a non-profit organization launched in 2001 by the... Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
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
Lexum
Lexum joins the Institute for Data Valorization (Ivado)
Lexum is proud to announce the conclusion of an industrial partnership agreement with the Institute for Data Valorization (Ivado). Ivado is a joint initiative from the academia (HEC Montréal, Polytechnique Montréal and the University of Montreal) and the industry aimed at participating in the development of a new economy evolving around massive data processing to […] Read more
Emma
Elliott
Are You Ready for the Digital Afterlife?
The purpose of the survey is to evaluate whether or not urban Canadians are ready for the digital afterlife. An online survey composed of twenty-one (21) questions was conducted to establish 1) digital assets awareness, 2) digital afterlife awareness and 3) digital afterlife preparedness. Results were obtained thanks to descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and hypothesis […] Read more
Pierre-Paul
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
Marc-André
Morissette
How Fast Is your Search Engine?
The search engine is at the heart of most information management systems as it is often the principal conduit by which users navigate to the information they are looking for. As a leading provider of information management systems, Lexum has spent a lot of time developing a search engine platform that it applies to all its products. Our search engine provides […] Read more
Jessica
Zita
Researching Niche Legal Issues
Today, electronic data is generated at a rate and volume exponentially faster than anything seen previously. We have brilliant tools like CanLII at our fingertips to access all of it. But CanLII is best navigated by lawyers and legal professionals who understand the nature of the relationships between documents and what search terms to look […] Read more
Lexum
The Northwest Territories Courts Now Using Decisia
Lexum is excited to share that Northwest Territories (NWT) Courts are now using Decisia to run their decisions website. Decisia was selected to improve access to decisions from the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court, the Territorial Court, as well as the Youth Justice Court. Users can access all NWT Court decisions from the official web site of the courts . In upgrading from its former platform to Decisia, the new and improved NWT Courts decisions website feature s : Several new search fields under the advanced search option Previews in the search results list Highlighting of keywords in the... Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Why Labour Union should Adopt Electronic Collective Bargaining Agreements (e-CBA)
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