Legal design and user experience from a designer’s perspective This week I spoke with Rose Devlin, lead UX (user experience) UI (user interface) designer at Theory and Principle. We talked about what design and professional designers can do for law and how great design can improve the legal experience for all. For those who aren’t familiar with Theory and…

What is Contract Design School Contract Design School is a signature online program for lawyers (or anyone who works with legal documents) who want to simplify and visualize user-friendly contracts. It’s designed to give participants the mindset, framework, and tools for the journey from a traditional lawyer to a designerly lawyer who is inspired and…

Today our topic is the results of contract design: The outcomes lawyers are seeing when they use contract design in their work. When I talk about contract design, I’m talking about simplifying and visualizing contracts to make them user-friendly. I believe that there’s nothing that inspires more action than stories…

Legal design in real life with Lawyers Design School This week Hannele Korhonen from Lawyers Design School spoke with Orsi Szabo, from InvestCEE — a technology consultancy helping lawyers humanize their work and improve efficiency through legal technology. The discussion centered on humanizing documents and the role of legal design in the process. Humanizing documents adds another perspective to…

Legal design thinking in real-life with Hannele Korhonen This week I spoke with Kaisa Kromhof, founder of Ment which is a no-code document automation solution — for lawyers — and anyone who wants to automate and customise their document production. We talked about user-centred design and the role it played in the development of Ment. For those who…

Want to change the way you do law? Here are the three strategies we use at Lawyers Design School to effect long-lasting change in the way lawyers and legal teams do their law: Start with simple and scrappy Implement change in everyday work and not external projects Plan, then act These three keys are the foundation of our…

Is it legal if I simplify a contract? Contracts are legal instruments with legal implications and have a long history of interpretation and precedent and this has shaped the way lawyers write and present contracts. Simplifying contracts challenges tradition but it doesn’t mean it’s not legal. In fact, new laws are requiring contracts to be easier to understand…

Lawyers can design contracts It’s not just for designers. If you’re a lawyer who’s wondering if you can design contracts, read on and find out. Tip: By “contract design” I mean structuring and presenting contracts using new contract architecture, plain language, and visual elements. …

What is contract design? Contract design is a customer-centric approach to contracts that uses legal design as its foundation. Contract design make contracts easier for the user to understand structures and presents contracts in a new way takes complex legal writing and simplifies it with plain language uses visual law by applying different visual…