CanLII's Board of directors announced yesterday, February 9th, that Colin Lachance is to step down from his position of President and CEO of CanLII . On this occasion, Lexum wishes to acknowledge Colin's important contribution to the development of Free Access to Law in Canada. Colin Lachance has held the title of President and CEO of CanLII for four years. Under his leadership, CanLII became stronger... Read more
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Daniel
Poulin
Internal Management of Precedents and Case Law
Many organizations have gathered significant collections of arbitration awards, tribunal decisions, court decisions and various other precedents pertaining to their field of activity. It could be law firms or various quasi-legal structures, trade associations, trade unions or advocacy groups. Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
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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La Chaire Lexum – Lexum's commitment to improve access to legal information
On 11 November 2014, the Executive Committee of the Université de Montréal decided on the name "Chaire Lexum" to describe the research Chair used to continue the work undertaken by the Laboratoire Lexum from 1993 to 2010. At the same time, the objectives of the research Chair, access to legal information, law and justice as well as the consideration of issues related to the use of information technology... Read more
Daniel
Poulin
Meaningful public access to legislation
03.11.2014 Tags: Free Access to Law Daniel Poulin, President of Lexum was a panelist at the Nudging Regulations conference by Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice in Ottawa on September 9th, 2014. See his slides below. Meaningful public access to legislation by Daniel Poulin, Emeritus professor, U. of Montreal, President, Lexum Inc. Can a statute or regulation... Read more
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Lexum launched its quarterly Newsletter!
Lexum has just launched its quarterly Newsletter which will cover the latest info on market trends, news and company updates. You can read the first edition here . If you like what you read, please subscribe to continue receiving the next editions of the Lexum Newsletter (only 4 per year). Click here to subscribe to the newsletter. Read more
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Lexum to talk at Nudging Regulations conference by CIAJ in Ottawa
Daniel Poulin, President of Lexum will be a panelist at the Nudging Regulations conference by Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice in Ottawa on September 9th, 2014. In addition, Lexum will have a booth to present Qweri, a cloud based software to publish online manuals. Read more
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Get alerts on latest Supreme Court of Canada decisions with Twitter
From now on, you’ll be able to get notices of all the new Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decisions on Twitter by following our account https://twitter.com/lexum_inc . Read more
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Lexum to speak at the Law Via the Internet (LVI 2014) conference in Cape Town
This year’s Law Via the Internet (LVI) conference will take place in Cape Town, South Africa from September 29th to October 1st, 2014. The conference is organized by the Free Access to Law Movement for which Lexum is a founding member. Read more
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Legal Informatics in Italy
16.07.2014 Tags: Free Access to Law Legal Informatics in Italy Fifty years of studies, research and experiences edited by: Ginevra Peruginelli and Mario Ragona Abstracts. Preface. A “giusliberista”, democratic and philosophical computer science (p. 13)by Luigi Lombardi Vallauri In my 1969-1995 writings on legal informatics, that this contribution diachronically marks, three... Read more