Lexum is pleased to announce its latest version of Decisia: Decisia 5.1. Here’s what’s new: Greater Control of the Quality of your Metadata Input With Decisia 5.1, it becomes possible to make any metadata field mandatory. In addition to the metadata fields that were already mandatory by default (e.g.: the date), you can now decide […] Read more
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The Copyright Board of Canada Selects Decisia for its Upcoming Website
Lexum is proud to announce that Decisia will be used to provide access to the decisions and certified tariffs of the Copyright Board of Canada (CB) on its redesigned website to be launched later in 2019. The CB opted for Decisia to offer advanced legal research capabilities to its website users. Approximately 1,000 decisions and […] Read more
Alisa
Lazear
Lexbox Tip: Enabling Third-Party Cookies for a Better User Experience
[Attention: this post is deprecated since Lexbox 3.0 released on 28/07/2020] Why enable third-party cookies? Cookies are text files that are saved to your device when you visit a website using them, like Lexbox. Cookies can contain information about your preferences, settings, the links you clicked, or the amount of time you spent on the […] Read more
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The Employment and Assistance Appeal Tribunal of British Columbia Adopts Decisia
Lexum is pleased to announce that the BC Employment and Assistance Appeal Tribunal (BCEAAT) has opted to use Decisia to provide access to its decisions online. Decisia will enable the BCEAAT to standardize how public and legal professionals get online access to the tribunals’ decisions, making it easy for users to conduct advanced legal research […] Read more
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Qweri 2.1 – Faster Performance, Improved Footnotes, New Annotations Tool for Administrators & Better Management of Print Functionalities
Lexum is pleased to announce its latest version of Qweri: Qweri 2.1. Here’s what’s new: Faster Rendering, Scrolling and Navigation Qweri 2.1 brings noticeable performance improvements making document rendering, navigation and scrolling instantaneous. Qweri is the only publishing tool on the market allowing a sub-half-second interaction with multi-thousand pages long documents of any format, including... Read more
Alisa
Lazear
Lexbox Tip: How to Save a Specific Paragraph from a Decision from CanLII
Lexbox was designed to make your legal research faster and easier. To help you use Lexbox to the best of its ability, we are sharing Lexbox tips with you from time to time. Here’s one if you are using Lexbox on the CanLII website. Today’s tip is about saving a specific paragraph from a decision […] Read more
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Lexum is Inviting Industry Partners to Join Lexum Lab in Pilot Implementations of Legal Data Enhancement Technologies
Lexum Lab – Lexum’s R&D unit – currently conducts several projects in the fields of text analysis, information retrieval, metadata extraction, document enhancement, and classification. We use machine learning and deep learning techniques on the millions of documents available on the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) website. Our approach provides versatile solutions... Read more
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Lemyre
Improving Publishing without Disrupting how you Operate
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
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The Federal Courts Reports Website Upgraded with Decisia
We are happy to announce that the Federal Courts Reports website recently adopted Decisia. The Federal Courts Reports (FCR) are published by the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada (FJA). Their website makes reported judgments, digests, and information on appeals from the Federal Court of Appeal and the Federal Court openly available […] Read more
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Quebec’s Commission d’accès à l’information adopts Decisia to upgrade its Website
The Commission d’accès à l’information (CAI) of Quebec selected Decisia to enhance the publishing of decisions on its website. The Commission reviews decisions of public organizations in response to requests from individuals who have been denied access to an administrative document or to their personal information. Except in certain situations, these judgments are public information […] Read more