Open Law Laba blog by Margaret Hagan
Open Law Lab
Some of the questions that are at the heart of my thoughts lately…
Employment law firm Seyfarth Shaw has adapted the business process of Six Sigma into the law firm, and law-client, setting, while also mixing it in with Lean methodology. …
As requested by a visitor, another evidence flowchart — this time a more general Checklist as a Flowchart.
Here are a big collection of my notes & brainstorms from a recent weekend, focused on how to bring Immigration self-management tools to non-citizens living in the U.S.…
At this young stage of legal design, the best thing to offer lawyers who want to offer better, excellent products to their clients is a guidebook. What I…
I’ve been scouring around for guidelines that will keep lawyers and companies on track when composing & displaying Privacy Notices. It’s obvious — we need a clearer…
The CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University is one of the only centers looking at how to compose & display effective privacy notices online and off. One of their…
The SikhCoalition has put together an ingenious app out to crowdsource reports of discrimination at airports and on airlines. If the government and companies won’t release information about…
I’ve been enjoying the site Typography for Lawyers from Matthew Butterick. He makes some effective arguments as to why Typography is more than just font choice — why…
Design is not just color choice or logo composition. It is the way a product is composed, that structures how a user interacts with the product what the…
I dug up a report that the FTC had published a few years back on how they have evolved good information design for financial institutions to give privacy…
The Immigration Legal Resource Center (ILRC) has put out a sketched-out (at least in part) guide for a young non-citizen audience — trying to equip them with some…
For those legal people who want to be more conversant while talking with developers, this infographic offers a great grounding, to be able to speak with possible CTOs…
A quick sketch of a concept for wearable law… Of course fictional now, but only slightly tongue-in-cheek…
I’ve been searching around for pre-college legal curriculum. When is law taught to young people in America, other than in pre-law classes in university? I took a Civics…
Having gone through 3 Hackathons in the past 2 months, I’m a little shocked about how little clarity there is about IP or legal grounding. It’s good to…
I am writing a paper on ways to bring good design to create new models of access to justice. I have been scouting out some such threads, to…
I have been working on some quick sketches on what the design process is good for — and how to actually do it. Here is note 1 —…
I have been doing some readings to try to put together some frameworks that would teach non-designers what ‘design’ actually is. I came across the book How Designers…
I got a note from Helena Haapio in Finland today — there is a group of legal professionals & others active with the organization Lexpert who are working…
Another flowchart that I made for my Evidence final last week, and just colored in…
After a recent comment from the wonderful Peter Lederer about the challenge of building new models of law schools and legal professional training, I got some fresh inspiration…
This is a chart from a general discussion of how new trends in tech are adopted — but I have got to imagine it is quite different in…
Law students are known to complain a little about law school, but I’d like to capitalize on the complaints — they are essentially user needs ripe for research.…
Georgetown Law is holding its 2nd ‘Iron Tech’ Lawyer competition, in which students who took a semester seminar –“Technology, Innovation & Law Practice: An Experiential Seminar” — by…
Jureeka is a browser tool that will transform any legal citation you come across as you browse, into a hyperlinked legal citation. It was created by Michael Poulshock…
I just came across the company TrueOffice that is putting together (inspiring!) games for businesses to train their employees on ‘compliance’ issues. Think sexual harassment, information security, or…
Prints of this drawing available here for purchase! I am playing with different ways to study for my Finals. I decided to try out flowcharts. My hypothesis: the…
A short cartoon I made while listening to Professor Nora Engstrom’s talk on Legal Clinics & attorney advertising at Stanford Law School last month.
I just discovered the UK law student resource site Lawbore, run along with Learnmore, out of London. It was written about by Emily Allbon in the European Journal…
Law as an app – technology in legal education » VoxPopuLII. Christine Kirchberger & Pam Storr offer a great overview of where ‘apps’ (as conceived of now —…
Stealth Wear by Adam Harvey is an art-project, prototype version of protective clothing, that stops the wearer from being surveilled — or targeted for drone strikes. It has…
I started typing out a 3 page email reply to a colleague who wants to figure out how to build a website for a legal project she &…
I went to InfoCamp today at Berkeley with the intention of soaking up best practices and inventive ideas from User Experience Designers and Information Junkies at the School…
This excellent graphic from Jesse James Garrett should provide a fundamental basis for law-people to orient themselves in the world of User Experience design. Many interwoven tasks go…
I have heard from a few people that they want an Angie’s List for Lawyers — a service they are willing to pay for, to get quality, real,…
The Lawyerist published a review of a new app — JuryPad — for lawyers to help them manage the jury-selection process, proceed through voir dire, and pick a…
An article from Josh Kubicki, with advice customized for lawyers & law students on how to pitch their business idea. Startup Pitching for Lawyers & Law Students February…
What does it actually mean to think like a lawyer? If we think of building tech to teach, simulate, or enhance these skills, its worthwhile to discern the…