Lexum is proud to announce that the legal department of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN) selected Decisia to manage its internal bank of judicial and quasi-judicial decisions. CSN lawyers have been accumulating court decisions and arbitration awards in labour law for many years, in order to provide a knowledge base to be used as precedents in current cases. The services to be provided... Read more
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Qweri 1.11 Now Available
Lexum is pleased to announce Qweri 1.11. Here's what's new: Redesigned Dashboard The Qweri Dashboard has been redesigned to provide a better user experience when browsing the entire knowledge base. Browsing and searching are now located on the left portion of the screen and occupy a larger area. A new sorting mechanism for multi-page lists of search results, as well as a new counter for hits per language... 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
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Lexbox Featured on LawSites
Lexbox is featured on the well-known LawSites blog, written by Robert Ambrogi: Lexbox Organizes and Monitors Canadian Legal Research Mr. Ambrogi is an accomplished lawyer and consultant who has been writing and speaking about the Internet, social media and legal technology for nearly 20 years. LawSites has earned Mr. Ambrogi several awards, most recently winning the “Friend of the North Award” at the 2015 Clawbies - the Canadian Law Blog Awards. Mr. Ambrogi has significant influence on both sides of the border. This is an honour for the Lexbox team. Please check out the article, and follow... Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Get it All Together!
This new post came close to being titled “Remember that file cabinet” in memory of that black or beige metal storage cabinet where for decades a senior partner had been accumulating short notes and printed cases related to the firm’s area of expertise. About 15 years ago, every firm had its own. It was a […] Read more
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Qweri to Improve Access to Legislative Information in the Caribbean
The Improved Access to Justice in the Caribbean - IMPACT Justice Project – selected Qweri as the online delivery platform for the Consolidated Indexes of Statutes and Subsidiary Legislation from 16 Caribbean countries. The upcoming website will provide subscribing legal practitioners and libraries with instant access to exhaustive consolidated tables of legislative amendments, the vast majority of... Read more
Daniel
Poulin
What’s in Qweri for unions and HR Dept.?
In a recent post, Pierre-Paul Lemyre promoted a concept of electronic collective agreements, collective agreement documents offered in a system using today’s web technologies to serve the needs of union representatives, HR professionals, as well as members and employees concerned by these contracts. In this sequel, I summarize what union representatives and HR professionals told us […] Read more
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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
Jessica
Zita
Lexbox: Making the Students of Today Efficient Lawyers of Tomorrow
Lexbox is everything a law student needs: it’s a Google extension that helps organize and monitor your online legal research. You can store relevant legal information from various online sources and alerts in one location. And, it’s free. Which is arguably its most important feature, if you’re a debt-riddled law student. I say ‘arguably’, because […] Read more