Visit our new Decisia page, with brand new illustrations and a product sheet outlining the many Decisia features. Decisia is Lexum's solution for the online management and publication of decisions.

The Court Martial Appeal Court reveals the new Decisions section of its website which is powered by Lexum's Decisia, a tool for the online publication of administrative and judicial decisions.

From February 15 to 17 the European Commission and the Hague Conference on Private International Law held a conference in Brussels under the theme " Access to Foreign Law in Civil and Commercial Matters". Professor Daniel Poulin, President of Lexum, chaired a panel on the theme of "Availability of online legal information." According to prof. Poulin, the unanimous conclusions of the conference are extremely favorable to expanding access to law at the international level. Indeed, at their conclusion 8, participants highlighted an essential role of the States "[T]he conference confirms that States should make available without cost to users legislation and relevant case law online. Such information should be authoritative, up-to-date, and also include access to law previously in force." This conclusion is based on the guiding principles identified in 2008 that promote open access, the right to copy public legal information, the implementation of neutral citations and several other founding principles of free access to law.

Daniel Poulin, Lexum's President, provides analysis and explanation of the Supreme Court of Canada Decisions website survey results on slaw.ca.

Lexum is in the midst of a project which will add 1600 historical decisions to the Surpeme Court of Canada Decisions website. Decisions to be added will start in 1947 and work their way back to reach the total of additional decisions. Further, decisions from 1970 to 2011 will see their PDFs replaced with scans of the side-by-side decisions as published in the original Supreme Court Reports. All this to be launched in the first half of 2012!

A few weeks ago, Lexum invited users of the Lexum – Supreme Court of Canada Decisions’ website to participate in a survey to help improve the site.

With over 800 participants, precious feedback was provided which will serve to guide improvements to be brought to the site throughout 2012. Some findings were anticipated: the vast majority of users are found to be lawyers.  Other responses were slightly more unexpected: the most requested improvement by users is the expansion of the collection to include decisions going back as far as 1876, whereas very few (3%) of respondents are interested in integrating social media tools to the site.

Beyond helping to improve the Lexum - Supreme Court of Canada Decisions’ website, the survey also included more general questions pertaining to legal research as a whole. The answers to these questions spoke volumes for free access to law in Canada: CanLII tops all. CanLII is indeed most frequently used, has the best search tools, and is the favored source for legal information over both free and paying resources available across Canada.

Throughout 2012, upgrades will be made to the Lexum – Supreme Court of Canada Decisions website. These upgrades will be announced through the site’s RSS feeds and mailing lists and via Lexum's Twitter feed.

Lexum is proud to announce the conclusion of an agreement with the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), a federal Crown corporation with the mandate to promote efficient and effective standardization in Canada. Lexum will provide the SCC with a customized version of its LexCrawl web crawler software module in order to support the SCC staff in its monitoring of references to standards embodied in the laws and regulations of all Canadian jurisdictions. LexCrawl will allow the SCC to maximize its monitoring efforts and to provide its political division with comprehensive and up-to-date data about legislative references to standards.

Lexum's hyperlinking tool is back, with a new look and a new name: LexHub.

LexHub turns legislative and case law citations in your documents into hyperlinks which lead to the source documents on CanLII. It couldn't be easier to use: upload your document, click "submit", and LexHub returns your documents with the citations hyperlinked. And best of all, it's completely free! Click here to try it today.

Decisia is live on the Canadian Agricultural Review Tribunal's website. Decisions are now available in HTML and PDF format, they are completely searchable and the Tribunal has their own administrative interface to easily keep the site up to date.

Lexum recently launched its new platform for disseminating decisions from administrative tribunals and professional boards. Decisia is the only turn-key solution on the market designed specifically for publishing judicial decisions over the Internet. Decisia offers different types of navigation (alphabetical, chronological, by subject, type of decision, etc.), full text and field search using the LexFind technology, access to documents in HTML and PDF and a variety of awareness tools. Decisia also incorporates advanced administrative tools to ease the workload of content managers, including the automatic extraction of metadata from the body of the documents, user-friendly validation interfaces and flexible fields. Decisia is cloud-based, requiring no infrastructure on the client side, and seamlessly integrates into an existing web site thanks to a proven approach unique to Lexum. With a starting cost as low as $5,900 per year, all courts, tribunals and boards now have a professional dissemination solution at their reach.

In recent months Lexum developed and refined an offer designed specifically for administrative tribunals and profesionnal boards seeking to improve the dissemination of their decisions on the Internet. With its all-new Decisia platform Lexum now offers tribunals both the peace of mind of a cloud based solution and the communication benefits arising from the seamless integration of advanced search and navigation features to their existing website.

Lexum will unveil the first implementations of Decisia at the Conference of Ontario Boards and Agencies (COBA) to be held in Toronto on November 3, 2011.

Next week, the Oyez Oyez team at Lexum will be at the 2011 FQM presenting its collection of services for managing public municipal documents.

For the past couple of weeks already, the LexFind search engine has been deployed on the CLEBC website.  CLEBC clients now benefit from advanced search features for all the continuing legal education material of interest to them: practice manuals, case digests, training material and webinars, online store, practice notes and CanLII.  The LexFind technology indexes all of these databases uniformly even if they are hosted at several distant sites and based on different technologies.

Lexum is getting ready for the Association of Municipalities of Ontario's Annual Conference, held in London, Ontario, from August 21st to 24th. We're happy to announce that we'll be taking this opportunity to launch the Ontario version of the Lexum-designed service for municipalities, Oyez Oyez. Stop by our booth for a demo, more info or some cool give-aways! In the meantime, be sure to check out the Quebec version of the service at qc.oyezoyez.ca.

In a world dominated by electronic decisions, Mr. Pelletier discusses how these should be cited, and offers an overview of the changes in this field in the past few year. [Read article here]

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Lexum will be at ACLEA 47th annual meeting from July 30th to August 2nd. Stop by our booth for demos on products we developed for federal tribunals, Canadian and international courts and CLE associations, or simply to say hello!

Lexum's president, Daniel Poulin, featured in this month's Marché Municipal Magazine: read the article here

After the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals Conference in June and the Association des directeurs municipaux du Québec Conference the same month, Lexum is now getting ready for the 47th annual meeting of the Association of Continuing Legal Education to be held in Boston July 30th to August 2nd, 2011.

The e-Learning Africa Conference is one of the largest of its kind, bringing together practioners, experts, researchers and newcomers from over 75 countries worlwide. Lexum will be participating in a pre-conference workshop interested in the sustainability of free access web resources. Click here for a description of the workshoop and more information on e-Learning Africa.

This morning, The Montreal Gazette helps Lexum inc. celebrate its first birthday. Click here to access the article.

Lexum will digitize the historical collection of the Guyana Law Reports, covering the period from 1930 to 1976. This electronic collection will complement the Law Reports that Lexum is currently producing for the period from 1977 to 2007.

The Canada Industrial Relations Board has chosen the LexEdo platform to disseminate its decisions and orders on its Web site.

One of Quebec's leading municipal law firms collaborates with Oyez Oyez.

Bélanger Sauvé will contribute its extensive knowledge of municipal affairs to help Oyez Oyez become an indispensable tool for accessing municipal public materials. The most visible outcome of this partnership will consist of providing users of this website with news related to the transparency of municipal governance.

Oyez Oyez, a website with the mandate to facilitate access to municipal by-laws from accross the province, is proud to welcome its two first member municipalities: Sainte-Adèle and Sainte-Catherine. As Oyez Oyez members, Saint-Adèle and Sainte-Catherine's municipal staff and citizens benefit from a personalized web page where by-laws, council meeting minutes and agendas and other public documents are published regularly by Lexum's editorial team. Click here for a quick demo or visit OyezOyez.ca for more information.

Lexum has recently established a group discount for administrative tribunals choosing LexEdo to disseminate their decisions on their own websites. Group members receive discounts ranging from 30 to 50% over the regular cost of our turnkey services. This offer can significantly reduce the costs associated with managing websites of administrative tribunals. A group was created for federal administrative tribunals and already includes several members. A similar campaign targeting the Ontario tribunals will be launched over the coming weeks

The publishing services for municipal bylaws, minutes and agenda of the council meetings, public notices and other public documents are now available on OyezOyez.ca. These services to municipalities are provided under a set of packages adapted to the needs of both small and large municipalities and can be setup as of today. The municipalities of Sainte-Catherine and Sainte-Adèle are the first to publish their documentation through OyezOyez.

Lexum will be deploying its web crawler, LexCrawl, for the CAPTURE project to aid chronic disease prevention practitioners and program managers in their daily work. Look for its release next spring!

Lexum was selected by the Senate of Canada to undertake a consultation mandate with the objective of modeling its information architecture and to propose a corresponding governance model. Over the next few months Lexum will complete an in-depth analysis of the various business processes of the Senate involving the management and use of legislative information.

Lexum is constantly looking for new talent and these days more than ever. Having signed a number of major deals, the business is fast growing. In order to meet the increasing demand for its products and services, Lexum is looking to hire software analysts.

Main qualifications expected: enthusiasm, ability to meet challenges and a drive to facilitate access to legal information. Lexum offers an attractive benefits package, a relaxed working environment and our premises are located in the heart of Plateau Mont-Royal.

Call us today!

514.316.2100

CLEBC selected Lexum for the development and deployment of its future electronic service for model agreements. This new service will provide increased flexibility for CLEBC customers by making it possible to acquire model agreements individually from an enlarged database.

Please note that the date of Lexum's inauguration cocktail has been pushed to December 2nd due to ongoing site work.

December 2nd, 2010 we invite you to join us for the occasion. Come enjoy a few informal presentations about our new line of products as of 4 p.m., or simply stop by for a bite to eat and a drink as of 5 p.m.

We are located at 4200 Saint Laurent Blvd, Suite 910 in Montreal.

Please rsvp by November 24th either by email at info@lexum.com or by phone at 514.316.2100

We are looking forward to celebrating with you!

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.

SAFLII is pleased to announce that the 10th International "Law via the Internet" Conference will be held at the International Convention Centre in Durban, South Africa, 26 - 27 November 2009. The call for papers is now open with a title and abstract due in June 2009.