Join me in creating a legal info marketplace and disrupting legal publishing

5 years ago

I'm a lawyer working in the online legal research space. I'm looking for cofounder/s/investors to help me create a global market-place for legal information.

Legal info is consumed by: A) People who info to help them with their own legal problem. B) Lawyers who require legal info to enable them to do their job.

Legal info is created by: C) Lawyers who want to showcase their expertise so as to attract new clients. D) Lawyers looking to sell content as an alternative revenue stream to hourly billing.

User A might use Google, sift through many irrelevant search results, would eventually be directed to many different sites of varying credibility.

User B typically spends thousands of dollars a year for paid research platforms. I work at one of the leading companies in this space and I see how bloated, overpriced and inefficient the products. There are huge improvements to be made in how legal info is captured from those who have the expertise, and distributed to those willing to pay for it.

User C typically publishes legal info on their own websites and on various publications. But if there was a platform that led the way in storing and indexing legal info, attracting readers, while promoting publishers so as to help them generate leads, this would be the obvious place for user C to publish.

Users D is a market to be created. The production of legal content is currently monopolized by the big legal publishers (like my employer), but there is an opportunity to do for lawyers, what SubStack does for bloggers.

My idea is a global legal platform catering for the 4 use cases above. If you assemble the users you draw in the content creators, and vice versa.