An Agenda for Next Generation Legal Services
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…
Open Law Laba blog by Margaret Hagan
Open Law Lab
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.
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
From my notebook, sketches from a brainstorm around what possible models for access to justice initiatives might be.
One item on my ever-growing Access to Justice agenda is an online hub full of worthy software solutions for legal organizations to use. Ideally, with software that is…
A sketch from my notebook on what it means to be a ‘Legal Designer’ — what the skillsets of such a new hybrid breed of legal professional should…
Last weekend, I attended some sessions of a Design Symposium at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design. The topic was ‘Transition Design’ — how we as designers can…
I had written a short piece on the potential rise of crowdsourcing in legal investigations earlier in the year — and following up on that, Stanford Lawyer has…
The Official Google Blog has a post “A remedy for your health-related questions: health info in the Knowledge Graph”. It announces that Google is going to treat certain…
I have been reading through articles documenting how ‘Plain Language’ came to be a standard by which legal communications are judged — and which courts, firms, and companies…
I came across this video essay by Laura Walker Hudson, the CEO of Social Impact Lab, which houses the open source messaging system Frontline SMS. She speaks of…
This post is not just for lawyers — it is for people who work in hospitals, banks, insurance companies, government agencies, loan companies, accounting firms — people who…
I’ve put together a new short questionnaire, on the topic of the increasingly-discussed ‘Generational Gap Among Lawyers’. I’m interested to hear your take on whether this gap exists,…
I made another visual based on a short questionnaire I ran back in November-December last year, on people’s thoughts on Access to Justice. Earlier visuals of the questionnaire…
As I’ve been writing papers aimed for law journal publication, I keep coming back to my frustration that whatever I write for such a journal, it’s likely to…
Last week, I was a facilitator at a Shaping Davos design thinking workshop at Stanford’s d.school. Several local non-profits had brought some big social impact challenges they’re facing…
As I’ve ventured into the world of public legal education — helping lay people figure out and navigate their legal problems — I keep hitting my head against…
Over winter break, I got through a stack of books — including two by Stanford Management Science & Engineering professor Bob Sutton. I read his new one with…
Yesterday I went to a lunch at Stanford Law School on the podcast Serial, and the role of advocacy & the media in the legal system. My friend…
I’m working this week on pulling together an academic paper I’ve been writing on best practices & design standards for online legal resource sites, aimed at helping lay…
I am working on a paper right now that stakes out a framework for those of us who are working on building access to justice innovations & accessible…
As more talk grows about Internet & mobile-based technology opening up a new era of Consumer Law, it’s useful to look back a few decades when there was…
A quick talking head sketch of a ‘What-If’ for legal design. What if we started over with our legal systems? Instead of patching over the problems with better…
As I’ve been writing up a paper on new legal tools & an agenda for access to justice innovation — I keep coming back to the same point.…
These sketches date back a few years, when I was working on online privacy mechanisms. I put them here as provocations, and inspiration.
This is a sketchnote that I’ve drawn out while at different Access to Justice meetings, talks, and roundtables — where the discussions have been about how to get…
Here’s a quick concept design sketch I had made my last year of law school, about how Improv-based education could be integrated into a legal education. At Stanford…
On his blog “the [non]billable hour”, legal consultant Matt Homann challenged law firms to design a more readable, engaging, client-centered bill for legal services. If your clients designed…
I was excited to see a concept design for a Parking Sign featured in Wired Magazine– that would communicate a legal warning/penalty quite clearly to the people who…
From WeHave the Future, in Veneto region of Northern Italy
One branch of Legal Design Ideas I’m working on is using crowdsourced information to improve transparency of how legal regulations are implemented & processes are carried out. An…
A group out of Chicago, the Mikva Juvenile Justice Council, is making an app to help young people understand & go through an Expungement legal process. The Knight…
