Proprietary legal media archive

The largest professionally produced archive of attorney legal Q&A videos.

THELAW.TV produced and distributed short-form legal information videos featuring thousands of U.S. attorneys answering frequently asked legal questions. Today, THELAW.TV maintains the proprietary media archive, structured content records, and associated data created through that nationwide platform.

250,000+ Attorney Q&A Videos
~4,167 Hours Professional Video & Audio
2,000–3,000 Attorneys
20+ States Nationwide Production

Videos average approximately one minute in length.

01 — Archive

A nationwide archive of legal expertise

Over more than a decade, THELAW.TV worked with attorneys and legal organizations across the United States to produce a large library of short-form legal question-and-answer videos. Each video was designed around a specific legal question and featured a practicing attorney providing an accessible on-camera response.

Most of the original collection is no longer publicly available online. THELAW.TV maintains the underlying media library, structured content records, and associated metadata.

Video

Original professionally produced short-form attorney Q&A video files.

Audio

Professional spoken legal responses from thousands of U.S. attorneys.

Questions & Answers

Structured legal questions paired with individual attorney video responses.

Transcripts

Existing transcripts for a substantial portion of the video archive.

Jurisdiction

State and geographic data associated with attorneys and video content.

Practice Information

Attorney identity, firm, practice area, and related professional data.

Publication Data

Original publication dates and associated video content records.

Structured Metadata

Structured content and professional metadata associated with individual videos.

Synchronized Media

Video, audio, and related records associated with the same attorney Q&A response.

02 — Data

Structured legal media, not simply a video library

The archive combines original media with structured content and metadata reflecting how practicing lawyers explain legal issues in response to frequently asked legal questions.

This combination of expert speech, legal subject matter, structured Q&A relationships, professional metadata, and synchronized media creates a distinctive resource for machine learning, model evaluation, retrieval, speech and multimodal systems, as well as other legal technology applications.

03 — Platform

Built through a nationwide legal video platform

THELAW.TV operated as a legal information and attorney video platform serving lawyers and legal organizations throughout the United States. Its nationwide production network generated hundreds of thousands of professionally produced attorney videos.

Independent coverage from The Florida Bar reported in 2017 that THELAW.TV had produced more than 200,000 Q&A videos for more than 2,000 lawyers in more than 20 states. The production spanned numerous legal practice areas and jurisdictions.

Historical industry recognition

THELAW.TV has produced more than 200,000 short-form Q&A videos for more than 2,000 lawyers in more than 20 states.
Florida Bar News, May 15, 2017. Independent historical coverage; not a current endorsement.
Founded
2009
Archive
250,000+ videos
Attorneys
2,000–3,000
Production
20+ states

04 — Company

About THELAW.TV

Founded in 2009, THELAW.TV developed a nationwide platform for producing and distributing attorney legal-information video. The company worked with lawyers across the United States to create concise, professionally produced answers to frequently asked legal questions.

Although THELAW.TV no longer operates its former public video-hosting service, it continues to maintain and manage its proprietary media archive and associated data assets.

The archive today represents a unique record of thousands of attorneys explaining legal concepts, procedures, rights, obligations, and common legal questions across a broad range of practice areas.

05 — Licensing

Licensing & data partnerships

THELAW.TV is evaluating select commercial licensing and data partnerships involving its proprietary legal media archive and associated structured data.

Potential partnership structures may include access to legal Q&A data, transcripts, audio, video, metadata, or combinations of these assets, depending on the proposed use and licensing arrangement.

All inquiries are evaluated individually.

Discuss a Partnership

THELAW.TV maintains broad perpetual contractual rights to use and commercially license archive content, including for machine-learning applications. Specific rights and permitted uses are subject to the applicable licensing arrangement.

06 — Contact

Business inquiries

For licensing, data partnerships, archive-related inquiries, or other business matters, contact:

Brian Albert

Founder

THELAW.TV

balbert@thelaw.tv