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 provide assistance at any step of your workflow
Converts unstructured data into well-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’ bodies. We pull dates, titles, file numbers, and others from files and store them in a reusable format. The resulting data can be uploaded into one of our solutions or simply delivered to you.
Improve access by standardizing formatting
We design templates to standardize your image-based documents into text-based formats, and apply them to your collections. Regarding accessibility, our templates automate a large portion of the work associated with WCAG compliance. We also personalize the output to your requirements. It can be simple requests such as adding bookmarks in some PDF files, or more complex ones such 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 fields of law or keywords 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
Collaboration Between Lexum and AfricanLII Brings South African Law Reports Online
As a signatory of the Montreal Declaration on Free Access to Law and a member of the Free Access to Law Movement , Lexum has built strong connections with other Legal Information Institutes worldwide. One of these partners is AfricanLII , and the scope of their work is reason enough to take a few moments to delve into. AfricanLII...
“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.
