We are excited to announce Lexbox 1.4.7. We’ve worked hard to ensure that Lexbox continues to make access to free online legal resources easy and organized. Lexbox now features expanded supported website coverage, as well improved overall functionality (e.g., save documents, email your finds, collect history, etc.). See below for a more detailed look at specific sites: CASELAW Federal Court of Appeal... Read more
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Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
What About Proactive Legal Research?
Let’s face it, legal research is something lawyers do in reaction to external events impacting their practice. In a typical case, you first get into it following a meeting with a client raising a new or unfamiliar issue. The client expects expert advice and sufficient knowledge to take a position and define a legal strategy. […] Read more
Frédéric
Pelletier
Posting Judgments that can be Listened to – Lexum’s Approach to WCAG Compliance
Web accessibility is about the capacity of Web content to be used by people with disabilities. It aims at lifting barriers that prevent disabled people from navigating the Web, understanding its content and contributing to it.For the visually impaired, this means that the semantics conveyed by the visual presentation of a document Read more
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Decisia Now Integrates with myCaseLoad
Decisia flexible decision publishing solution now is fully integrated with CaseLoad Software’s Case Management Solution, myCaseLoad myCaseLoad provides a highly configurable case management system which now customers can easily integrate with Decisia very flexible decisions publishing solution. Courts, boards, commissions, and tribunals use myCaseLoad for the efficient management of their cases and... Read more
Daniel
Poulin
Decisia, an Indispensable Tool for a Court’s Intranet and Website
05.08.2015 Tags: decisia Lexum’s Short White Paper Series: Decisia, an Indispensable Tool for a Court’s Intranet and Website By Daniel POULIN and Joseph KHAYAT Email: daniel@lexum.com / khayatj@lexum.com National Conference of Appellate Court Clerks Forty-Second Annual Meeting Snowbird, Utah August 2-7, 2015 Executive summary A large number of American courts and a significant number... Read more
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ROBOCOP Technology Now Included in Decisia
Lexum is pleased to announce the integration of its ROBOCOP technology for the prevention of abusive content downloads. Robocop technology was conceived by Lexum in the context of its work for CanLII in order to prevent massive content downloads. This Lexum technology is now one of the various features offered with Decisia . Now, certain users of Decisia websites will occasionally see a brief message... Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
How to Create your Own Dog Law Database
One thing that you learn while completing your first year of law school is that you have suddenly become the legal advisor of your close family. I can attest to the fact that spending over a decade developing legal technologies instead of providing legal advice does not lower the expectations of those around you. Family […] Read more
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New Beta Product: Lexbox
Lexum is pleased to announce a new free solution designed to help legal practitioners keep track of their legal research. Lexbox is a personal online workspace for legal research that complement existing legal information websites. It's convenient Chrome extension pops up when you undertake legal research and allows you to save search queries, cases, legislation or any other web pages all in one place... Read more
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Decisia 3.14 released: HTML5 & WCAG Filters
Lexum is pleased to announce version 3.14 of Decisia . Here’s what’s new: HTML5 With 3.14, Decisia features HTML5 user interfaces. Clients with HTML5 websites will be able to have their Decisia installation migrated to HTML5 as well. With this development, Decisia remains on the forefront of web development both in terms of government requirements and best industry practices. SEARCHABLE “SUMMARY... Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Why Labour Union should Adopt Electronic Collective Bargaining Agreements (e-CBA)
Over the last few months Lexum has been contacting labour unions and professional associations, discussing how its Qweri solution for text-heavy documents can improve the handling of their collective bargaining agreements (CBA). Labour union staff includes many power-users of legal information websites operated by Lexum, such as CanLII, but only recently did Lexum launch an […] Read more