This presentation contains an outline for the creation of a new type of legal information service: a Themisplaza Marketplace. A Marketplace for legal content, added value apps and personalized legal services. It is based on the premise that actors in the legal information field and developers are prepared to collaborate in an endeavor that is beneficial for them and their clients.

1. Themisplaza
A concept for a marketplace for
legal information & services
Thei Geurts

2. This presentation contains an outline for the creation of a new type of legal
information service: the Themisplaza Marketplace. A Marketplace for legal
content, added value apps and personalized legal services.
It is based on the premise that actors in the legal information field and
developers are prepared to collaborate in an endeavor that is beneficial for
them and their clients.
November 11th, 2016
NB: The concept is originally created in 2011.
Introduction

3. 1. The opportunity
2. The time is right
3. The concept
4. The Marketplace
5. The essential element
6. How could it work?
7. Service components
8. The Business model
9. The benefits per target group
10.Other publications
Table of content

4. 1. The opportunity
• Access to legal information can be improved:
• Multiple providers, silo’s, overlap, incompleteness, long time to market
• Packaged pricing, decrease in value for money, buy back squeeze
• Paper product paradigm
• Focus on professional, not on consumers
• Use of legal information can be improved:
• Limitations in topic based crosswalks between documents and document types
• No actionable information for decision support and interaction/transaction support
• No multi-perspective comparison of doctrines/evidence based analyses
• Equal level playing field of legal practitioners can be improved:
• Pre-competitive collaboration
• Standardization in terminology, re-usable building blocks
• Foundation for innovation

5. 2. The time is right
• Legal professionals want to engage:
• Creating content and services
• Reap the benefits of open access and peer production
• Governments stimulate open data:
• Pre-competitive collaboration
• Reuse
• Sharing interpretation
• Publishers struggle with innovation:
• Limitations in topic based crosswalks between documents and document types
• Providing content and services anytime, anyplace, any device (tablets/mobile)

6. 3. The concept
• Create a Marketplace for legal information
• Offer a collaboration platform for peer production and review of content
(doctrines, articles, terminologies, apps)
• Create (automatically) enhanced publications that link the content to
sources of legislation and case law/jurisprudence
• Create a Store for accessing, using and buying content on a free, pay per go
and subscription base
• Allow legal service providers to offer personalized services to users

7. 4. The Marketplace
Transaction
Co-creation
Self publishing,
collaboration,
responding to
requests
Legal service
providers
Groups
Practitioners
Citizens
App developers
Institutions &
Academics
Add doctrine
or article,
refer to law
Add building
blocks (e.g.
vocabulary)
Download
content and
app results
Consult
professionalViews,
notifications,
downloads,
referrals
Subscribe,
use free,
pay per use
Add
legal
apps
Review,
edit &
approve
Rate
products
Feedback
Release

8. 5. The essential elements
Content
(Enhanced publications)
(Personal services)
(Value added apps)
Organization
(Governance body, domain teams)
(Organizational contributors, Quality Control)
(Support staff)
Technology
(Collaboration & Store services)
(Self management)
(Open standards)
Commitment
(Delivering and using content,)
(Participating in organization)
(Funding)

9. 6. How could it work?
• Professionals affiliate themselves to a domain group (e.g.
civil law) that has its own organization and workplace. They
create doctrines and link these to the relevant legislation or
case law.
• Domain editors review the doctrine, edit links and content,
offer feedback to the author – if needed - and release the
validated doctrine for publication.
• The released doctrines are linked to the public (free)
available legislation and case law.
• Users access a service, browse or search on topic in
legislation and find all related doctrines. They pay per item.
They can also use apps on a pay as you go basis.
• Apps are developed by individual or corporate developers
and members of an app group which exists of developers
from domain groups. The apps are validated by an editorial
group.
• A steering group is responsible for the quality of service
and collaboration. The group organizes events and
represents the professionals in the contact with the platform
provider.
•The paid operators are responsible for logistics,
administrative tasks, repository management, helpdesk
and other support functions.
Domain
Groups
Editorial
Groups
Apps
Group
Steering
Group
Repositories
Operations
Group
Users
Platform

10. 7. Service examples
Service examples
• Personal services (activities, profile)
• Group services (editorial, planning)
• Connect with LinkedIn, Facebook
• Online transactions
• Alerts/notifications
• Emailing documents
• Simple, guided and advanced search
• …………..
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• Doctrines, linked laws and case law
• Enhanced publications
• Advisors/FAQ’s
• Interactive forms
• Individual contract wizards
• Mediation decision trees/wizards
• Legal hotline
• Documents assessment
• Calculators (e.g. fines calculation)
• Plug-ins (e.g. general terms &
agreements, or privacy statements)
• Legal concepts and definitions
• Case management services
• App creation requests/commissions
•…………..

11. 8. The Business model
Enabling platform
(creating, editing,
storing, publishing
and delivery)
Cloud
infrastructure
Investor capital
User generated
content and apps
Public/Legal sector
creators/providers
Representatives
Academics
Platform
development &
management
Transaction
services and
provisioning
Digital rights
management
Marketing
Mix of cost and value
driven structure
(based on economics of
scale and scope)
Marketplace for
legal content,
added value apps
and personalized
legal services
Large central set
of legal content
and apps
Co-creation
Self-service
Automated services
Themisplaza,com
(draft name)
Usage fees
Subscriptions
Brokerage fees
Advertising/sponsorship
Participants
Legal professionals
Citizens
Aggregators
Affiliates
Key resources
Cost structure Revenue streams
Key activities Channels
Customer segments
Customer relationships
Value propositions
Key partners
Infrastructure Market
Finance
Offering

12. 9. The benefits per target group
• Legal professionals
• Integrated access to doctrine, legislation and
case law
• Comparing multiple opinions
• Reputation building
• Faster time to market (more actual information)
• Cost reduction
• Catalyst for Service innovation
• Government
• Enhancement of public sector information
• Sharing interpretation with citizens and business
• Citizens
• Integrated legal source
• Personalized services
• Simple to use apps
• Publishers
• New integrated channel for distribution and
exposure
• Linking to own services
• Potential new markets and revenues
• Academics
• Source for Research and Education
• Distribution of academic knowledge and expertise
• Platform for distributing new apps
• Developers
• New platform for distributing apps
• User feedback and requirements
• Revenue stream per added value
• Investors
• Business model
• Replication potential
(from Legal to other markets, e.g. Health)

13. See also:
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=Thei+Geurts
LinkedIn: https://nl.linkedin.com/in/theigeurts
Blog: http://theiland.posthaven.com/
Eurosapiens: http://eurosapiens.posthaven.com/
Books: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/thei_geurts
10. Other publications