Lexum is a Canadian
legal technology firm, publishing legal information. Lexum is a member of the
Free Access to Law Movement
The Free Access to Law Movement (FALM) is the international organization devoted to providing free online access to legal information such as case law, legislation, treaties, law reform proposals and legal scholarship. The movement began in 1992 ...
.
Background
The firm is a spin-off from the
Université de Montréal
The Université de Montréal (; UdeM; ) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on M ...
LexUM Laboratory. The forerunner of Lexum was founded in 1993
as the Law
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server at the Université de Montréal. This site was both, respectively, the first available legal resources site in
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...
and in
French.
The Canadian Legal Information Institute (
CanLII
The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII; ) is a non-profit organization created and funded by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada in 2001 on behalf of its 14 member societies. CanLII is a member of the Free Access to Law Movement, ...
) is a not-for-profit organization created by the
Federation of Law Societies of Canada
The Federation of Law Societies of Canada () is the national association of the 14 Canadian regulators of the legal profession. The 14 law societies are mandated by the provinces and territories to regulate the legal profession in the public inter ...
in 2001 with Lexum technology backing-up the site ever since. In 2018 CanLII acquired Lexum.
Services
Lexum offers online services designed for producers and managers of legal information, as well as digitization, conversion and publishing services for legislation, case law, secondary material, and other legal materials.
References
External links
Legal Services
Multilingual websites
Canadian legal websites
Free Access to Law Movement
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