Two innovating Québec SMEs, Irosoft and Lexum, both well known in Canadian legal circles, are joining forces today to develop technology that leverages artificial intelligence to open the way to exploiting very large data sets (“Big Data”) while ensuring the protection of the personal information that they contain. At present, Lexum and Irosoft are conducting research on […] Read more
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Qweri 1.18 Processes your PDF Files into HTML
The latest version of Qweri accepts PDF files as an input format, making it easy to produce high-quality HTML eBooks from any authoring platform. Qweri 1.18 integrates PDF pages into its own HTML5 environment, and generates a dynamic table of contents from the bookmarks present in the original file. In the absence of bookmarks, Qweri […] Read more
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NEW! Washington State Public Employment Relations Commission Adopts Lexbox to Personalize its Website
Washington State Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC) has adopted Lexbox on its Decisions website. This means that visitors to the Washington PERC website will now see the Lexbox buttons integrated to the agency website, enabling them to interact with its decisions in a personalized way. Lexbox makes it possible for users to personalize their legal research experience […] Read more
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Improved Access to the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Tribunal Decisions and Orders
We are pleased to announce that the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Tribunal (PSDPT) significantly improved access and search capabilities of its decisions and orders by adopting Decisia. The PSDPT decisions are now organized by collections which can be searched in full-text and filtered by: Case name; Citation; File number(s); Date; Decision-maker(s); Decision type; Decision on […] Read more
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Lexum and MILA (Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms) Work Together on a New Approach to Legal Information Retrieval
Lexum is proud to announce a collaborative project with MILA (Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms) seeking to apply research in the area of deep learning and machine learning into the field of legal research. Having the chance of combining computer engineers with cutting-edge expertise in the specifics of legal texts, a large set of legal […] Read more
Tenille
Brown
3 Tips to Help you make the Most out of Lexbox
Legal research is more then ever carried out through free websites and accessed via a variety of online digital content. For instance the most used legal research website in Canada is CanLII, operated by Lexum on behalf of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. Lexbox is designed to help you leverage CanLII and other […] Read more
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Using the Decisia Administrative Interface (for Editors)
Documentation detailing how Decisia editors can configure and update their databases using Decisia web-based administrative interface. View this document with Qweri. 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
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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
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Decisia Version 4.4 Released
Lexum is pleased to announce the latest version of Decisia: 4.4. Decisia 4.4 continues to provide online publishing services for decision-making bodies with enhanced features that will make the service even more streamlined for producers and users of legal decisions. The new features include: Modernized Administrative Interface Version 4.4 offers the same easy-to-use functionalities with a [&hellip... Read more