Case study International Legal Publisher

Making legal knowledge easier to publish and easier to explore

We built a custom publishing platform for an international legal publisher preparing an extensive online commentary on the EU AI Act. The result combines an efficient editorial workflow with a premium reading experience designed specifically for legal professionals, researchers and students. What started as a publishing challenge became a professional research platform for navigating one of the most important pieces of AI legislation in Europe.

Client
International Legal Publisher
Industry
LegalTech
Stack
WordPress · PHP
Outcome
Custom publishing platform
The challenge

Legal publishing demands far more than a standard CMS

Our client was preparing a comprehensive legal publication with hundreds of pages of structured content, references and footnotes. While editors needed a fast and familiar publishing workflow, readers expected a modern digital experience that would make complex legal information easy to navigate, search and understand.

01

Keep the editorial workflow based on Google Docs

02

Reduce manual formatting and publishing time

03

Create an intuitive reading experience for long-form legal content

04

Build a platform ready for future publications

Stack

What we built it with

  • WordPress
  • PHP
  • Laravel Blade
  • ACF Pro
  • Alpine.js
  • mPDF
How we built it

Designed around editors and readers alike

A faster publishing workflow

Instead of asking editors to recreate documents inside WordPress, we developed an automated import process that converts Google Docs into structured website content. Headings, footnotes and document hierarchy are preserved automatically, making publishing significantly faster while reducing the risk of errors.

  • Automated Google Docs import
  • Preserves document structure
  • Less manual work for editors

A reading experience built for legal professionals

Rather than presenting legal commentary as ordinary web pages, we designed a dedicated reading interface. Readers can move seamlessly between chapters, browse detailed tables of contents, search across the publication and access contextual footnotes without losing focus.

  • Multi-level navigation
  • Integrated search
  • Contextual footnotes
  • Reading-focused interface

Making legal knowledge easier to understand

Legal terms are automatically connected to a central glossary, allowing readers to access definitions instantly while staying within the context of the article. The result is a smoother reading experience without interrupting research.

  • Automatic glossary linking
  • Consistent legal definitions
  • Improved readability

Built to grow

The platform was designed as a long-term publishing solution rather than a one-off project. New chapters and future publications follow the same streamlined workflow, making it easy to expand the platform without changing how editors work.

  • Scalable architecture
  • Reusable publishing workflow
  • Ready for future growth
The result

A publishing platform that works for both editors and readers

01 Efficiency

Faster editorial workflow

Editors continue working in familiar tools while publishing new chapters with significantly less manual effort and greater consistency.

02 User Experience

A better research experience

Readers can easily navigate extensive legal commentary, search across chapters, explore legal terminology and access supporting references exactly when they need them.

03 Scalable

A future-proof platform

The solution provides a solid foundation for expanding the publication with additional chapters and future legal projects without rethinking the publishing process.

Contact

Working with complex content?

Whether you're building a legal publication, knowledge base, documentation portal or another content-rich platform, we can help turn complex information into an experience that's easy to publish, manage and explore.