Rely on Lexum to increase the value of your data
Our combined team of paralegals and software engineers is constantly processing legal information for a wide range of clients and use cases. We have extensive experience when it comes to transforming and enhancing large volumes of legal documents in a short time frame. We can support your organization on one occasion, or on a permanent basis
We can assist you at all steps of your publishing process
Transform unstructured data into structured information
We turn paper-based archives into searchable databases. In addition to scanning and running optical character recognition (OCR), we have become experts at extracting metadata values from documents’ body. We pull dates, titles, file numbers, and the likes, from files and store them in a reusable format. The resulting data can be uploaded in one of our solutions, or simply delivered to you.
Improve access by standardizing formatting
Converting image-based documents into text-based formats may require adopting a common look and feel for slightly different files. We design the required templates and apply them to your collections. Thanks to our knowledge of web accessibility guidelines, our templates automate a large portion of the work often associated with WCAG compliance. And we always take your requirements into account, whether it’s as simple as adding bookmarks in some PDF files, or as complex as undertaking the typesetting of a series of ebooks.
Get better outcomes with added value
Our expertise with legal information enables us to complement your content with domain-specific added value. We provide consolidation services for legislative material. We build the case names of decisions following the industry’s guidelines. We recognize legal citations and add links pointing to the corresponding documents. We use artificial intelligence to propose related documents based on the semantic of yours. If it’s about enhancing legal information, there is a good chance that we can do it.
Lexum in action
How to Semi-Automate Typesetting to Save Time and Money
Typesetting is the operation consisting in setting the text onto a page so that it looks good. It originates from the printing world in which typographers initially had to arrange physical types (letters and symbols) to imprint them on paper. Obviously, this work is now completed digitally with the help of dedicated software such as Adobe InDesign...
“Since 2018, Lexum has been responsible for the typesetting of the Court’s bilingual judgments for the S.C.R. It requires the methodical and systematic application of graphic layout rules and the review of the overall typographic quality. Our requirements are strict and efficiency, timeliness and professional rigor are essential. That said, Lexum meets the requirements unquestionably and executes the mandate more than satisfactorily.”
“I sincerely thank Lexum for its perseverance and dedication in relation to the project carried out for us over the last few months. Your team did an amazing job. The challenge was not easy, but you clearly rose to the task.”
“Lexum staff were super helpful and went above and beyond in making sure our every detail and concern was properly addressed. The data enhancements to our decisions make research much easier for our tribunal members, staff, and the public.”
Best practices
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
Making old cases new: the digitization of case law
Information that is born digital today tends to be accessible online and thus better preserved than 20 years ago, before the Web made it much easier. Prior to the Web’s revolution in information technology, content that was prepared electronically with word-processors was mostly preserved on paper and not digitally, the native files being overwritten with newer content in order to save memory space, which at the time really meant, in several office environments, to save… floppy discs.
Use of Personal Information in Judgments and Recommended Protocol
The JTAC Open Courts and E-Access to Court Records and Privacy Subcommittee was asked in February, 2004 to consider developing and implementing a standardized national protocol to de-identify family judgments which would allow all of them to be posted on court websites.
