Open Law Lab
Pangea Legal Services is a San Francisco collective of lawyers who are working to support immigrants with legal support — through a low-bono and pro-bono model that provides…
Immigrant Justice Corps is a fellowship program (or legal incubator) to train people to serve as legal assistants for immigrants in the US. Its application is currently open…
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…
A quick sketch of the general way people — students or practitioners — learning the Law By Design process can flow. A lot of details contained in each…
Some more props & tools that I’ve been using in system designs. These are good for synthesizing research & notes — and then focusing in on what exactly…
Last week I attended the presentation about Modest Means Incubators at the State Bar of California. There were judges, private lawyers, law school admins, legal service providers, and…
For the Get Smart class I’m teaching at Stanford d.school, about information design for legal & financial notices, I’ve put together The Good Notice Project. I’m collecting examples…
Two years ago, there started some talk about US courts using SMS and other phone-based communication to issue reminders for court hearings to people. It seems several other…
I’ve been creating lots of tools & props for use by (beginner) designers in their attempts to understand a complex situation & craft good interventions, to improve the…
Lauren Dyson at Code for America wrote up an interview/discussion with Kiran Jain, an attorney in the City of Oakland who has been trained in design & is…
I’ve been looking around for different models of promoting entrepreneurship among JDs & young lawyers. There are a few interesting post-graduation incubators, that help recent law graduates get…
Isaac Parker, a digital agency in the UK, has created a tool for designers & lawyers working on mapping flows of user services. The pack boils down common…
This is a design method prop that I’ve been using to help workshop goers & students of legal design. The purpose is to use the sheet to crystallize…
A concept design that came out of a legal workshop I ran last week among legal aid & self-help lawyers.
I originally posted this over at the d.school’s Whiteboard.
I’ve started scouting out different courtroom based service & system designs. Here is one, that my colleague Briane alerted to me: the Online Court Project based out of…
Check out a new data-gathering & redesign project from Nikki Zeichner, The Parole Hearing Data Project. The Parole Hearing Data Project is a repository of New York State…
The recent UX Sprint for Security & Privacy Tools in San Francisco featured a great list of projects that work to empower citizens. Most center on: How can…
Fixed – The easiest way to fix a parking ticket. Fixed is an app that lets you hand off your parking ticket to the company, for them to…
via NYC Housing Court – Resolution Assistance Program (RAP). New York just began a pilot program of Court Navigators for Housing Courts in some jurisdictions. Non-lawyers would help…
Oxford Law Map:: Law in Oxford. Oxford Law has published an interactive, color visual of the legal topics it offers for study. It is simple but shows the…
via Better Lawyering for the Poor – NYTimes.com. The New York Times Editorial Board published a piece spotlighting various New York-based initiatives that might transform the structure of…
The Justice Index is a new project out of the National Center for Access to Justice at Cardozo Law School. It collects & displays data about how…
This visual made it up to Twitter last Friday, but here it is for a more permanent home on Open Law Lab. It was a great conference &…
Many of my d.school Estate Plan redesign class groups are thinking about how to gamify estate planning — bringing some elements of game experience, like points, rewards, competition,…
Stephanie Kimbro has posted on YouTube a preview of the legal game Estate Quest she & her team are designing, all on Estate Planning for consumers. Her summary:…
Here is a recent slide presentation of online intake models from a few different projects around the country. Webinar Next Week: Beyond Online Intake: Looking at Triage and…
My article on the potential for Design Thinking & Law is now published over at the ABA’s Law Practice Today, Innovation Issue. Here is a copy of the…
Through the Program for Legal Tech & Design, I’m co-teaching a 5-session class at Stanford’s d.school this January & February. It will be a hands-on session on how…
At the request of my sister, I have been tinkering with simple diagram templates for law students, lawyers & clerks to structure their legal analysis, and anchor a…
