Legal Design: Crafting User-Centric Legal Solutions
This course leverages design thinking to simplify and humanize legal services through engaging case studies and real-world examples, making legal processes more accessible and user-friendly.
Overview
This course includes:
- 2 hours of on-demand video
- Certificate of completion
- Direct access/chat with the instructor
- 100% self-paced online
Do you find conventional, complicated legal procedures intimidating? Using design thinking, this course seeks to humanize and simplify legal services. Using interesting case studies and real-world examples, we will aim to demystify legal processes and simplify them for usage.
Inspired by apps like the UK ICO's "Make a Complaint" automation, which streamlines the complaint procedure, and DoNotPay, an AI-powered tool helping consumers negotiate legal concerns, Learn from Clio's Legal Trends Report, which stresses remote legal solutions and services oriented around the client, and from the Plain Language Act of New Zealand, which aims to make government communications understandable and accessible.
In the complicated field of law, putting the user first guarantees efficiency, accessibility, and openness. You will learn how to improve client involvement, apply design thinking to legal difficulties, produce simple, useful legal documents and services. Key techniques and strategies include multidisciplinary collaboration, plain language, and visual communication—which help you innovate in the legal sector and effect significant change—are offered by this course
Skills You Will Gain
Learning Outcomes (At The End Of This Program, You Will Be Able To...)
Review the Essentials of Legal Design.
Apply Design Thinking for Legal Hurdles.
Improve Client Interaction and Communication.
Create and Execute Legal Design.
Prerequisites
No specific prerequisites are required for this course, making it accessible to anyone interested in the topic. However, having a fundamental grasp of legal procedures and a curiosity about design thinking will enrich the learning experience. Participants with this background will find it easier to grasp the concepts and apply them effectively in their respective fields.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for a broad spectrum of legal practitioners, including attorneys, paralegals, legal designers, and law students. It is also suitable for professionals from various fields who are keen on enhancing the accessibility and user-friendliness of legal services. The diverse audience ensures a rich learning environment where different perspectives and experiences can be shared, fostering a deeper understanding of the importance and impact of legal design.
