Lexum
Efficient Access to Legal Information
Pierre-Paul Lemyre, PhD, Director Business Development
4200, Saint-Laurent #910 Montreal, QC H2W2R2
Lexum is a software company that provides products and services to legal information users as well as various other organizations and companies that prepare, manage and publish large collections of documents.
Lexum has been innovating for many years to develop products that reduce the risks and costs involved in managing, publishing and providing access to information. Lexum’s Decisia and OyezOyez are perfect examples of our approach. In both cases, Lexum’s solution democratizes access to high-quality technology that would otherwise be costly and much less available to the clients. Lexum’s clients receive worry- and investment-free professional information management, publishing and search services hosted on Lexum’s servers but integrated into their own web or intranet sites.
Lexum also offers turnkey solutions and tailored services designed to optimize the way that organizations access, manage and publish information.
North America
Success Story:
Towards the end of the 1990s, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada sought to guarantee permanent, free access to Canadian legal information for the benefit of legal professionals and the general public. The Federation approached Lexum, which had led a number of studies on the feasibility of such a project and was already established as the primary publisher of legal information on the Internet. The required library would have to provide free online access to court decisions from across Canada as well as to provincial, territorial and federal legislation and regulations.
The challenges were numerous – the system would have to support remarkable quantities of documents. Navigation had to be efficient and user-friendly. At the same time, the product had to offer the reliability and quality necessary for it to be a viable alternative to commercial publishers at a fraction of the cost.
The selected approach was to automate processes as much as possible to reduce manual tasks and operation costs.
Lexum developed all software solutions required for operating the CanLII website. These solutions include the search engine, the keyword generator, the legal citator that automatically inserts links to the cited legal documents and the document convertor that converts Word documents into HTML and PDF. These tools are constantly perfected by Lexum’s team of software analysts as to keep CanLII the top visited legal information website in Canada.
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