Open Law Lab
Susskind is presenting: Our legal system is out dated We are not ready for the huge increase in computing power We need to embrace technology, from a customer’s…
An agenda for making legal help into a proper service-driven user-centered system.
A great, rousing talk from Bay Area Legal Aid executive director Alex Gulotta. Looking at legal help from a person’s perspectives.
We need to think from immigrants’ points of view — where they are now, what tech they use, who they trust.
A big question from Avvo’s Mark Britton.
Some more radical thoughts from Denis Weil, provoking lawyers to rethink how they relate to their users to find effective paths toward innovation.
From design strategist Denis Weil, talking about connections between McDonald’s and the law.
Trying to capture Ron Dolin’s comments on legal start-ups, working with engineers, and looking at data.
Denis Weil, a design strategist, speaking to the ABA Legal Innovation Summit on what the Law profession should be doing.
A challenge from Justice Cuellar’s at the ABA Legal Innovation Summit.
We are in a new era, shaped by technology and globalization. How will we respond? Judge Tino Cuellar’s challenge to the ABA.
From the ABA Legal Innovation Summit
A sketch note from the Codex Future Law panel happening now.
Another sketch from today’s Future Law conference at Stanford.
As I’ve been writing up my ‘Design for Lawyers’ book & preparing my class presentation — I’ve been forming this venn diagram in my mind. Before, I would…
Yesterday I had the privilege to visit the courtroom of the Honorable Shawna Schwarz in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County. I was there to discuss with…
I’ve been reading a bunch of behavioral economics texts & taking notes on how it all might be made useful for legal services design. Here are some of…
I’m excited to see the development of Project Legal Link, a new type of resource that links social & legal services together in the Bay Area. I was…
In the world of access to justice, consumer law, and even big law services, we need to think more clearly about what kinds of new products and services…
Here are some of my sketchnotes from last Thursday’s Emerging Legal Tech Forum in NYC, at Thomson Reuters. These notes are from the talk by James Yoon, a…
Some insights delivered from the Emerging Legal Technology forum, from Ralph Baxter, Steve Poor, and Jim Yoon — lawyers who are all invested in changing law firms to…
Another sketched out note from the Emerging Legal Technology Forum, this time about contract related legal tech, from Kingsley Martin.
Another sketchnote from the Emerging Legal Technology Forum, from Seyfarth Shaw’s Chairman Stephen Poor, about software they have developed in-house for their lawyers to use while going…
Today I am at the Emerging Legal Technology Forum, put on by Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute and Stanford Law School. I will be sharing out my…
I’ve been writing up my version of the design process — particularly for complex service & systems challenges. Part of this undertaking has been figuring out which methods…
The National Expungement Project. is a Maryland-based effort to guide people with a criminal record through an eligibility check (can I expunge my record) and then direct them…
Professor Harry Surden of Univ. of Colorado Law School has published a beta version of a visual Code Explorer tool, to unpack & explore the laws on the…
As I’ve been reflecting on different patterns and models of Access projects, I’ve realized that we should be investing in a massive Legal Pathways Mapping project. We should…
Today I kick off my first quarter-long class on design thinking for legal services — Intro to Legal Design, cross-listed under the Law School & the d.school. I…
From my growing ideabook for new legal services, here is a sketched out note on what mobile tech could do for how we resolve small disputes between people.…
Last week I was at a symposium at the Univ. of South Carolina Law School, all about access to justice and doing more empirical, data-driven research about how…
Here is a design method that I’ve used in some of my projects. It’s useful during the user research and the ideating phases of a design process.
A sketchnote of the start of a talk from Stephanie Kimbro, speaking at Univ. of South Carolina Law School about her research on how games & gamification mechanics…
Some quick sketchnotes of a talk from Jim Greiner of Harvard Law School, speaking with Univ. of South Carolina Law School about how to engage people in debt…
Here is a report via Institute of the Future: a report on Future Work Skills 2020, about what future skills are needed in the next decade. Global connectivity,…
For some of my design workshops, I have been encouraging groups to do more Feasibility & Viability Reviews of their prototypes — even if these prototypes are more…
As I’m planning out my Spring quarter Intro to Legal Design class, I’m thinking a lot about how to lay out ground-rules for the student teams that will…
I’ve been thinking systematically about the suite of tools that we need to be building for better access to justice. I wrote earlier about the different product families…
