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On April 1st, Lexum Inc acquired all of the activities of the Lexum Research Laboratory of the Université de Montréal. Lexum Inc is a company owned by the main researchers of the laboratory and is operated in the same offices and by the same staff. This transaction will allow us to better meet the different business needs of Lexum's clients and make the long term growth of the company possible. Read more

Lexum is proud to announce the conclusion of a second major agreement with The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia (CLEBC) , this time for the implementation of an enterprise search solution. CLEBC chose ELIIsa in order to provide its users with advanced search features for its entire product line including its online practice manuals, its practice points, its case digest, its course... Read more

Lexum recently concluded an agreement with the Department of Justice Canada for the digitization of historic judicial cases from the Federal Courts. Lexum will identify the most cited judicial cases that are still inaccessible in electronic format in the body of documents integrated to the main knowledge database of the Department. Lexum scanning team is in charge of recovering the judicial cases, of digitizing them, of performing optical character recognition and ultimately of converting them to HTML. Read more

Lexum has recently published the Local Researcher's Methodology Guide as part of the Global Study on Free Access to Law. This study, entitled "Free Access to Law - Is it Here to Stay?", is funded by the International Development Research Center (IDRC) and coordinated by Lexum in partnership with SAFLII and The Centre for Internet and Society. The study will analyse Free Access to Law initiatives around... Read more

Lexum released a new version of the Tax Court Decision Website with a fresh new design. Read more

Lexum recently implemented research by judges on the Tax Court of Canada decision website. This new feature can be tested from the advanced search page. Read more

Lexum is proud to announce the conclusion of an agreement with Partnership Against Cancer Canada (CPAC), an independent organization accelerating action on cancer control across Canada. Lexum will implement a crawler to assist CPAC's portal team in monitoring ongoing changes in legislative material and policies disseminated over the Internet on a large number of distinct websites as well as to develop... Read more

The work "The Sedona Canada Principles: Addressing Electronic Discovery" and the "Canadian E-Discovery Case Law Digests" are now accessible in an interactive version thanks to the LexActo platform implemented on the E-discovery Canada website. Read more

Lexum is currently looking to hire a software developper. Read more