Difusión Jurídica y Temas de Actualidad, SA

What Difusión Jurídica y Temas de Actualidad, SA does

Difusión Jurídica y Temas de Actualidad, S.L., operating under the brand Economist & Jurist (also stylized as Economist&Jurist and E&J), is a privately-held Spanish legal information publisher founded in 1992 and headquartered at Calle Poeta Joan Maragall 49 in Madrid. The company operates economistjurist.es, a digital legal news platform serving legal professionals, law firms, and the general public across Spain, with an OJD-certified audience exceeding 750,000 monthly unique users and a newsletter subscriber base of more than 40,000. Its core product is a daily legal news portal covering jurisprudence, legislation, law firm news, case studies, and opinion columns, supplemented by a multi-format content ecosystem that includes four podcast series (Ultima Ratio, LegalTech Zone, Flash Legal, Lo peor de nosotros), a webinar program, E&J TV video content, a daily newsletter, and the Premios E&J Group awards.

The underlying technology is a standard digital publishing platform delivering legal content across web, email, social, and podcast channels; no proprietary AI, API, SDK, or technical integrations are disclosed in the available data. The company's premium monetization is built around three subscription tiers — Business Mensual at €14.99/month, Business Anual at €149/year, and Business Brand Anual at €299/year — which unlock exclusive content including practical legal templates (Sala 2.0) and premium opinion columns (La Firma). Beyond subscriptions, revenue is generated through sponsored content, advertorials, and co-branded webinars with partners such as Wolters Kluwer. Distribution is primarily direct-to-consumer via the website, email newsletter, social media channels (TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter/X, YouTube, Telegram), and podcast platforms.

The company employs 55 people, has no disclosed institutional investors, no funding history, no M&A activity, and no public listing. Its corporate group includes affiliated entities Lujo Extremeño, S.L. and Comunicación Integral y Marketing Jurídico, S.A. for administrative data-sharing purposes, while Picón y Asociados serves as external Data Protection Officer. Operating geography is exclusively Spain-focused despite occasional international content syndication (e.g., Impact Lawyers), and no global expansion claims are made.

Name

Difusión Jurídica y Temas de Actualidad, SA

Legal name

DIFUSIÓN JURÍDICA Y TEMAS DE ACTUALIDAD, S.L.

Website

https://economistjurist.es

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Economist & Jurist is a Madrid-based legal information publisher founded in 1992, operating a Spanish-language digital platform that delivers daily legal news, jurisprudence analysis, practical templates, podcasts, webinars, and premium subscriptions to 40,000+ legal professionals and 750,000+ monthly users in Spain.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Information Publishing

NAICS

Periodical Publishers (513120), Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers (5131)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYMPAJACAA

Legal & Regulatory Publishing (Case Law, Statutes, Treatises)

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Publishing (Books, News, Magazines)/Professional & Legal Publishing (Standards, Compliance, Reference)

SECONDARYMPAJACAI

Government & Public Policy Publishing (Regulations, Gazettes, Legislative Tracking)

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Publishing (Books, News, Magazines)/Professional & Legal Publishing (Standards, Compliance, Reference)

SECONDARYEDAGAGAB

Legal Reference (Statutes, Case Law, Practice Guides)

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Professional & Technical Reference Publishing

Keywords

• Legal news publishing
• Legal information services
• Jurisprudence analysis
• Professional legal content
• Legal practice resources

Headquarters

HQ city

Madrid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Premium Digital Subscription: Economist & Jurist generates revenue primarily through premium digital subscriptions offering exclusive legal content, jurisprudence models, practice templates, and articles. Subscribers access business plans at monthly or annual billing cycles.
2. Newsletter / Email Marketing: Free newsletter service with 40,000+ subscribers provides commercial communications about legal events, services, and products, with the subscriber base serving as a lead generation and upsell funnel for premium subscriptions.
3. Sponsored Content & Advertising: The platform hosts sponsored content and advertising, including branded webinars (e.g., with Wolters Kluwer) and sponsored articles such as the bar licensing guide, generating advertising revenue from law-related brands and legal service providers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Difusión Jurídica y Temas de Actualidad, SA operates Economist & Jurist, a leading Spanish-language digital legal news and information platform serving legal professionals in Spain since 1992. The company delivers daily legal news, jurisprudence analysis, legislation updates, practical legal templates, opinion columns, podcasts, and webinars through its website economistjurist.es, with a free content layer supported by premium subscription tiers.

Product overview

Economist & Jurist operates as a unified legal news portal and content platform for Spanish legal professionals. The core product is the Economist & Jurist website providing free legal news coverage, supplemented by multiple premium subscription tiers (Business Mensual at €14.99/month, Business Anual at €149/year, and Business Brand Anual at €299/year) that unlock exclusive content including practical legal templates (Sala 2.0), premium opinion columns (La Firma), and ad-free access. The platform extends through complementary modules including E&J Podcasts (Ultima Ratio, LegalTech Zone, Flash Legal, Lo peor de nosotros), Webinars for continuing legal education, E&J TV video content, and a daily Newsletter alert service. The company also publishes a print magazine (Hemeroteca) and organizes awards (Premios E&J Group) for the legal profession.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Economist & Jurist Platform A leading Spanish-language legal news portal providing daily coverage of jurisprudence, legislation, law firm news, and legal practice resources for legal professionals across Spain.
• Premium Subscription (Business Plans) Subscription tiers providing exclusive access to premium legal content, practical legal templates (Sala 2.0), premium opinion columns (La Firma), jurisprudence analysis, and case studies. Plans include Business Mensual (€14.99/month), Business Anual (€149/year), and Business Brand Anual (€299/year with branding elements for firms).
• E&J Podcasts Branded podcast series covering legal topics, including Ultima Ratio (criminal law), LegalTech Zone (legal technology), Flash Legal (legal news summary), and Lo peor de nosotros (legal commentary). Distributed via website and podcast platforms for on-demand listening by legal professionals.
• Webinars Live and on-demand educational webinars on legal topics featuring expert speakers, often co-branded with partners such as Wolters Kluwer, providing continuing legal education content for legal professionals.
• Daily Legal Newsletter Free daily email alert service delivering the most relevant legal news, case studies, legislative updates, job listings, and practical legal forms to over 40,000 subscribers, serving as a primary lead generation and engagement channel.
• Sala 2.0 (Legal Practice Templates) Premium collection of practical legal templates and model documents for judicial proceedings, covering civil, criminal, and family law matters, available to premium subscribers.
• La Firma (Premium Opinion) Premium opinion column section featuring contributions from judges, lawyers, CEOs, and legal experts on current legal and business topics, available to premium subscribers.
• E&J TV Video content section featuring legal news reports, interviews, and informational programming for legal professionals.

Quantifiable outcome

• More than 750,000 unique monthly users and over 40,000 subscribers

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Wolters KluwercoreGTM or Marketing PartnerEconomist & Jurist collaborates with Wolters Kluwer on joint content initiatives, including sponsored webinars such as 'Fórmulas de crecimiento en los despachos de abogados' and '¿Cómo incrementar la eficiencia de un departamento in-house legal?'. The collaboration appears in the 'En colaboración con' section of the website, indicating a co-branded content and marketing partnership.
• ITTI Sports InstituteminorOthersListed under the 'Formación' (Training) navigation menu as a linked partner under the Economist & Jurist umbrella, suggesting a cross-promotional or co-branding relationship for professional development content.
• Lujo Extremeño, S.L.minorOthersGroup company within the Difusión Jurídica corporate group. Listed in the data protection policy as a related entity to which customer data may be shared for centralized administrative purposes.
• Comunicación Integral y Marketing Jurídico, S.A.minorOthersGroup company within the Difusión Jurídica corporate group. Listed in the data protection policy as a related entity to which customer data may be shared for centralized administrative purposes. Provides services related to hospitality, restoration, and leisure.
• Picón y Asociados Derecho y Nuevas Tecnologías, S.L.minorOthersPicón y Asociados serves as the external Data Protection Officer (DPD/DPO) for DIFUSIÓN JURÍDICA, as stated in the data protection policy. The DPO's office is located at C/Hermanos Pinzón, 3 bajo, 28036 – Madrid.
• Impact LawyersminorOthersEconomist & Jurist publishes content from Impact Lawyers, an international legal news section covering topics such as the Brunton Miller law firm closure in Scotland and analysis of the Chambers legal directory. This appears to be a content syndication or co-publishing arrangement.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• VLEX: AI-powered legal research platform with strong presence in Spain and LATAM, increasingly competing for the daily legal intelligence workflow of the same professional subscribers.

Direct peers

• Legal Today: Spanish online legal news and analysis daily targeting lawyers and in-house counsel with daily news, opinion columns, and subscriber content — overlapping audience and editorial format.
• Diario La Ley: Long-standing Spanish legal periodical (now Wolters Kluwer) providing daily jurisprudence summaries, doctrinal analysis, and legislation updates to legal professionals.
• La Ley (Wolters Kluwer): Wolters Kluwer's flagship Spanish legal information brand providing daily legal news, jurisprudence analysis, and doctrinal commentary — directly competing with Economist & Jurist's core offering.
• Aranzadi (Thomson Reuters): Spanish legal publisher (part of Thomson Reuters) offering jurisprudence, legislation, and legal commentary databases to the same Spanish lawyer and law firm customer base that Economist & Jurist serves.
• Expansión Jurídico: Legal news vertical of Unidad Editorial's Expansión business daily, covering Spanish jurisprudence, legislation, and law firm news for a similar professional audience.
• Iuris&Lex: Spanish legal news and information publication covering jurisprudence, legislation, and law firm activity, competing for the same Spanish legal professional readership.

Broad incumbents

• Wolters Kluwer: Global professional information and legal publisher that is both a current GTM partner of Economist & Jurist (joint webinars) and a broad incumbent whose Spanish legal databases (La Ley) compete directly for the same professional audience.
• LexisNexis: Global legal information incumbent whose Spanish-language legal research and news products compete for the same professional subscribers and institutional customers.

Others

• LegalTech Spain: Spanish LegalTech industry association and media outlet covering legal innovation; not a direct news competitor but an ecosystem participant intersecting with Economist & Jurist's LegalTech coverage.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/economistjurist
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCT8TDtc5rWaQUeonyEzjHkw
• Facebookfacebook.com/economistjurist
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/economist-jurist-group
• Instagraminstagram.com/economistjurist
• TikToktiktok.com/@economist.jurist?lang=es

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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