In an era marked by unprecedented advancements in legal technology and a growing emphasis on transparency in the legal profession, positive changes are reshaping the accessibility of lawyers’ disciplinary decisions. Lexum supports and celebrates the initiatives reshaping how disciplinary decisions are shared with the public. One notable example is the CanLII database, where most Canadian [&hellip... Read more
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Lexum’s 2023 Wrap-Up : Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis
As the year comes to a close, now is the time for a post-mortem of a prosperous year at Lexum and for digital legal information services in general. Decisia has seen two updates this year. The first one, version 7.0, is a complete upgrade of the administrative interface with a new “info” tab, unique admin […] Read more
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The Copyright Board of Canada Adds Proposed Tariffs to Its Decisia Account
The Copyright Board of Canada (CBC) has been using Decisia for several years to publish its documents. The Decisia account of the CBC allows copyright owners and collective societies to search and access copyright information. This information is organized under different collections, such as licences, decisions, approved tariffs, unlocatable copyright owners and more. Lexum recently […] 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
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
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
Daniel
Poulin
Internal Management of Precedents and Case Law
Many organizations have gathered significant collections of arbitration awards, tribunal decisions, court decisions and various other precedents pertaining to their field of activity. It could be law firms or various quasi-legal structures, trade associations, trade unions or advocacy groups. Read more