The all-in-one platform legal publishers use to sell doctrine, case law, and annotated codes — directly to legal professionals and institutional clients.
Doctrine and case law evolve faster than publishing infrastructure. These are the bottlenecks your publishing house is likely dealing with right now.
When you sell through Amazon or other marketplaces, the lawyer, judge, or law student who buys your work is invisible to you. You don't know who is reading it, how often they use it, or what they need next. Without that relationship it is impossible to build subscriptions, renewals, or cross-sell across your catalog.
Bar associations, law firms, universities, and law schools buy many accesses at once. Today those sales are closed by email, invoiced by hand, accesses are created one by one, and no one knows whether the institution is actually using the library. Blind renewals are the norm.
Up-to-date doctrine and annotated codes are extremely high-value content — and that's exactly why they are the most copied. If your model is still emailing a PDF after payment, you lost control of that work on day one. You need streaming, not download.
When it's time to renew an institutional subscription, can you show how many lawyers at the firm logged in, which works they consulted most, and how much time they spent reading? Without that data, renewal is a price discussion. With it, it's a value discussion.
Legal publishers like yours combine individual sales with B2C and B2B institutional subscriptions. Publica.la lets you operate all three channels from a single catalog, a single reading platform, and a single analytics dashboard.
The lawyer, judge, or student buys a specific work from your branded store. Local-currency payment, instant invoice, immediate streaming access from any device. No middlemen and no original-file downloads.
Digital library with unlimited access to your full catalog or to themed collections. A recurring model that turns a one-off sale into predictable revenue. Proven by Hammurabi: the free trial converts skeptics into subscribers.
Bar associations, law firms, courts, universities, and law schools get access through a single contract. Institutional sign-on, IP-range authentication, bulk user provisioning, and usage reports to justify the renewal.
Same catalog. Same readers. Three revenue streams without duplicating operations.
Your reader does not consume your work front to back like a novel. They jump between articles, mark legal grounds, annotate interpretations, and come back to the same page month after month. Publica.la is designed for that workflow.
Up to four colors to classify what matters: applicable doctrine, key precedent, dissenting opinion, data to verify. Highlights survive updates to the work.
The reader annotates their interpretation next to the text and exports citations with bibliographic references ready for their brief. Notes are private and persist in the account.
Search a term across your entire work or catalog in seconds. Critical for annotated codes, manuals, and reference works.
Translate passages into any language and integrated dictionary. Useful for foreign doctrine, comparative law, and international case law.
Convert any passage to audio to listen on the way to court or while preparing for a hearing.
Native apps for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows with reading sync. The original file never lands on the device.
We bring AI assistance into the reading experience when it delivers real value (summarize a chapter, explain a passage, generate study questions). But before any feature, here are the commitments that matter to a legal publisher.
Neither Publica.la nor our providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS) use your doctrine to train, fine-tune, or improve any AI model. This is contractually prohibited in our DPAs.
AI features run only when the reader requests them (selects text and taps "Explain", "Summarize", etc.). There is no background processing or batch analysis of your catalog.
Only minimal text fragments and the reader's question are sent to AI providers. No identity, email, or personally identifiable information is transmitted.
Each publisher controls which AI features are available across their catalog. You can disable comprehension tools and keep only assisted reading. Vito (the conversational assistant) is only activated on request.
Doctrine and annotated case law are your most valuable asset. We operate on the same infrastructure Netflix and Spotify use to protect high-value content.
Hosting and content delivery on Amazon Web Services. SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR-ready. The same infrastructure tier the streaming industry uses.
The reader accesses content through streaming inside the reader. The original file (PDF, EPUB, MP3) never lands on the device and cannot be forwarded by email.
All connections over TLS 1.2+. Original files are stored encrypted. Access keys are unique per reader and per session.
Every access is logged: who entered, which work they opened, when, and from which device. Critical for auditing institutional license abuse.
Bar associations, law firms, courts, universities, and law schools are your highest-ticket segment. Publica.la includes everything you need to sell to them — and to retain them.
Compatible with SAML, OAuth 2.0, LDAP, and the major identity providers law firms and universities already use.
For bar associations and university libraries: anyone within the client's IP range gets access without managing users one by one.
Your works integrate into the university or bar association library catalog with no manual work from the library staff.
For each institutional client: how many users logged in, which works they consulted most, reading time, consumption peaks. Renewal conversations with data, not blind budgets.
Upload a CSV with the firm's lawyers or the association's members and accesses are generated. Self-service so the institution itself manages additions and removals.
Integration with the firm's ERP, the university's academic management system, or the bar association portal. Public documentation and integration support.
Over 750 law firms in LATAM already write with Corpus — an agent built on the licensed catalog of leading legal publishers, not on material scraped from the open web. Add your catalog and turn your doctrine into the verifiable source that appears every time a lawyer drafts a brief.
Every citation inserted in a brief travels with a traceable reference to book, page, and edition. No hallucinations. No invented sources. Your work, positioned as the reference.
Every citation Corpus inserts in a brief travels with a traceable reference to book, page, and edition. No hallucinations, no invented sources: your work becomes a trusted reference for 750+ law firms.
Corpus is trained on your catalog under a direct commercial agreement with your publishing house. It is not scraping or training without permission: it is licensing with royalties and control over how your work appears inside the agent.
Every time a lawyer drafts a brief with Corpus and cites your doctrine, that citation is an implicit recommendation of your work. Automated, scalable distribution to every lawyer already writing with Corpus across LATAM.
Editorial Hammurabi is a family-owned SME and a leading legal publisher in Argentina. They needed to modernize operations and serve an evolving professional audience without losing the trust of their traditional base.
Publica.la transformed how we deliver our legal content to professionals in Argentina and beyond. The flexibility and ease of use of the platform helped us overcome the initial skepticism of our traditional audience and open new opportunities for growth.
Leadership Team
Editorial Hammurabi S.R.L.
The questions legal publishing teams ask most often when evaluating Publica.la.
Yes. Publica.la is your direct digital channel, not a replacement for your publishing business. You keep selling print through your usual channels and add a direct digital channel to reach the legal professional who prefers consulting the work from their screen.
Publica.la supports institutional billing with your tax data, in local currency, and through the payment processors you already use (Stripe, MercadoPago, Kushki, Webpay, etc.). You define the model: annual, multi-year, by user range, or by catalog. The platform generates the invoice and provisions the accesses.
The reader never accesses the original PDF or EPUB — only the reader via streaming. Each session uses a unique, traceable key. Highlights, notes, and assisted downloads (when enabled) are tied to the authenticated reader. This doesn't make copying impossible (nothing does) but it turns it into an identifiable and costly act.
You update them whenever you want from the admin panel and the reader sees the new version instantly. Critical for annotated codes, doctrine on recent legislation, and manuals that depend on active case law.
The standard integration uses SSO/SAML for authentication (compatible with the identity providers universities already use), MARC records for the library catalog, and IP authentication when needed. There are APIs and webhooks for custom integrations.
Between 30 and 60 days from kickoff. Publica.la handles implementation: store setup, reader configuration, catalog import, payment processor connection, and team training. You provide the catalog and branding.
We do not use your content to train AI models. Our providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS) are contractually required not to do so. AI features run only when the reader requests them and do not send information that identifies the reader. You decide which AI features remain active on your catalog.
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