Lexum

Lexum is a legal technologies firm offering products and services to the many producers and users of legal information. Lexum offers turnkey solutions as well as custom services designed to optimize the way organizations access, manage and distribute this information. Lexum is also a multidisciplinary team made up of over 40 professionals with backgrounds in information studies, law, computer sciences. Together, this team has made Lexum the largest provider of Canadian legal information online.

Lexum first opened its doors in 1993 as the result of a collaboration with the Supreme Court of Canada for the online publication of this Court's decisions. Since then, Lexum has partnered with a range of Canadian legal institutions such as the Courts Administration Services (CAS), the Canadian Ministry of Justice, the Canadian Judicial Council and the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs, to name only a few, providing numerous services, including consulting, design, development, hosting and support. Beyond Canadian borders, Lexum also provides long term support services to international organisations such as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Telecommunications Union and the International Trade Centre. Lexum is a founding member of the Free Access to Law Movement (FALM) which counts over 30 member organisations worldwide.

Lexum is largely known as the designer and operator of CanLII website, of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, which is now the main source of online Canadian legal information. CanLII offers free, online access to the laws and regulations of all jurisdictions across Canada as well as to over 800,000 court decisions from Canadian Courts.

Lexum Inc. is a company founded in April 2009 to further the activities formerly undertaken by the Lexum Laboratory of the University of Montreal, founded in 1992 by Prof. Daniel Poulin.