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
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
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
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 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
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
Lexum is an emerging leader in artificial intelligence for legal research and legal service delivery
Artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in the legal industry is under the spotlight at the moment with efforts being made to utilize AI in the provision of a whole range of legal services. Lexum is one of the leaders in this emerging industry where we are using artificial intelligence to maximize legal research capabilities. Lexum’s […] Read more
The Arkansas Judiciary Adopts Decisia for the Online Publishing of its Opinions
Arkansas becomes the first U.S. State to adopt Decisia for the publishing of opinions rendered by its courts. In total this is up to 75,000 official and unofficial opinions that will be made available on the Arkansas Judiciary website using Decisia, including Court of Appeal Opinions rendered since 1981 and Supreme Court opinion rendered since […] Read more
Decisions from the Trademarks Opposition Board Now Published with Decisia
The Trademarks Opposition Board (TMOB) of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) recently integrated Decisia to its official website. Decisions pursuant to the Trade-marks Act and Trade-marks Regulations rendered since 1984 are now made available to the general public in both HTML and PDF formats and made easy to search. In addition to the usual […] Read more