Abstract
The common legal platform revolution will accelerate the already ongoing digital transformation and disruption of the legal industry. This chapter of “Liquid Legal - Towards a Common Legal Platform” will provide a comprehensive and practical approach to the design and architecture of the common legal platform. The common legal platform is intended for legal professionals that are interested in advancing the legal industry as a whole through collaboration. It is meant to be open and neutral, trustworthy and secure, globally scalable and user-centric. The chapter will propose designs for the functionality and core interaction of the common legal platform, defining its participants, value unit and filters. The significance of network effects, especially positive same-side and cross-side network effects, will be explored, as well as how frictionless entry and side switching may maximize the value-building impact of network effects. The concepts of pull mechanisms and positive feedback loops, and of mechanisms for facilitating platform interactions and for effective user matching will be discussed. These concepts collectively attract and keep users on the common legal platform by facilitating the creation of mutually rewarding interactions and exchanges. The degree of openness of the common legal platform with respect to manager and sponsor participation, developer participation and user participation will be calibrated, involving the use of APIs and curation. The technology of the common legal platform will be examined, recommending the adherence to the end-to-end principle, as well as to extremely high standards for IT, network and data security as well as data protection and especially GDPR compliance to ensure users may trust in securely participating on the common legal platform. The path of evolution of the common legal platform will be implied, considering how over time more types of interactions may be added to the platform in order to generate further value for its users and to attract new types of participants. Finally, this chapter invites all stakeholders of the legal industry to participate in shaping the common legal platform revolution.
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Andreae, Z. (2020). The Common Legal Platform Revolution. In: Jacob, K., Schindler, D., Strathausen, R. (eds) Liquid Legal. Law for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48266-4_11
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