Open Law Lab
During the Legal Design Bootcamp that I was running last week, one of the participating groups came up with a very interesting concept that I wanted to share.…
Here is a legal visual that I had started to create a few years ago during a Legal Design Jam for Wikimedia’s trademark policy. Here I’ve made it…
What would a good management system look like, for courts to assess their workflows & performance? James McMillan, John Matthias, and Matt Kleiman of the National Center on…
Two weeks ago I attended a few days of the Gruter Institute’s session on Law & Behavioral Sciences in Tahoe. I was quite excited to find Joshua Fairfield…
Last week I heard a presentation from the K-12 Lab at Stanford’s d.school, all about how they are bringing in modes & mindsets of Hacking into elementary schools…
I asked my Legal Design students what they think JD students should be learning right now in law schools, to prepare them for their future careers in the…
Rebecca Purdom of Vermont Law / Stanford Medical School examining factors of how law schools could be more innovative.
Some thoughts on a powerpoint from GWU Law Professor Susan Dudley.
I am at the Gruter Institute, learning about innovation in different industries. Here’s an interesting thought from the world of AI: Can we help people deal w) complex…
Law firms need to be focused on Legal services as PROCESSES we can redesign, remix – these coreographies of service delivery. We can play with these new processes…
It’s changing, as Seyfarth’s Steve Poor shows in this excellent slide about different phases law depts. staff & buy legal services.
Ron Dolin, discussing his recent paper on Clayton Christensen’s “The Innovator’s Dilemma” and how it may or may not apply to the legal industry.
How will corporate & consumer clients be shopping for legal services — what will they value & seek out?
A great slide from Ron Dolin, summing up some of the central problems to target in the legal industry.
From Stanford law school lunch talk today
Last summer, I started a design review of the California Judicial Council’s Self-Help webpage. It is meant to be a central hub for lay people in the state…
I was fortunate to be able to participate in last weekend’s ABA Summit on Legal Innovation. Watching all the presentations, and participating in Blue Sky innovations — my…
Some more thoughts about law school’s role in the changing profession.
A great vision from Harvard professor David Wilkins about how law schools can encourage innovation in the profession.
Stanford professor Deborah Rhode on the future of law schools.
Harvard professor David Wilkins on how law schools need to be adapting, know more about the work and paths of lawyers today.
More calls for streamlined legal help services, this time from Jim Sandman of the Legal Services Corporation.
More thoughts from this morning
A thought from this morning ‘so session.
My sketches from this morning’s agenda-setting working group: what are the big challenges to legal innovation? What do we as a profession (and beyond) need to focus on…
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.
Trying to capture Ron Dolin’s comments on legal start-ups, working with engineers, and looking at data.
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.
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…
