LexUM

Lexum is a Canadian legal technology firm, specializing in the publishing and management of legal information. Lexum provides turn-key SaaS solutions designed for the producers and managers of legal information, as well as digitization, conversion and publihing services for legislation, case law, secondary material, and more.

The firm is a spin-off from the Université de Montréal LexUM Laboratory. The forerunner of Lexum was founded in 1993 as the Law Gopher server at the Université de Montréal. This site was both, respectively, the first available legal resources site in Canada and in French. The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) is a not-for-profit organization created by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada in 2001 with Lexum technology backing-up the site ever since. In 2018 CanLII acquired Lexum.

Lexum is a member of the Free Access to Law Movement.

Resources

Lexum's technology is behind a number of legal information sites including

• CanLII
• Full-text Supreme Court of Canada rulings dating back to 1876
• The annotated Civil Code of Quebec