Director
I want to share knowledge.
Chief Executive Officer
The law is a tool that everyone should be able to understand and use.
Im a young lawyer passionate about legal technology and innovation. Im currently studying a masters degree in Information Technology Management. I have worked in IP for sometime now. Im the chapter leader of Legal Hackers Monterrey.
I have always been a very creative, open-minded, possibility-driven kind of person. During law school, many of my fellow classmates continuously teased me that I was not going to be a practicing lawyer because of my non-traditional approach at law.
Visual thinking, product design, drawing, design for interaction.
As a designer, I find it very important that the quality of all our products, be it physical or virtual, is very high. With which I mean a high `ease-of-use' and accessibility for as large a group as users as possible.
In the context of Legal Design Thinking, one can easily see that the current state of legal documents does not meet this standard. There is a movement going on to improve this, and
Interaction Designer: Design Thinking, UX/UI Design, User Research, Trend analysis, Usability protocols, Contextmapping, Graphic design
I am an interaction designer and as such I believe that us, designers, have the skills to make a positive impact on the world. I value the idea of equity and empowering people, I would like to contribue to it and I consider Legal Design Thinking as a tool to do so. Currently, I am developing my master thesis within the company Visual Contracts with a focus on employment contracts.
Art Director at Visual Contracts
My name is Jeroen van Diesen. Graduated as a graphic designer at the ‘Royal Academy of Arts’ in The Hague. Since then I’ve been working for myself, as a freelancer for other design agencies and recently as art director at Visual Contracts.
Legal professional
I am in the innovation space for the legal industry. I see Legal Design as a very useful tool to rethink the way legal services are delivered.
Graphic Designer
i am a Graphic Designer
Lawyer (Germany) & Legal Designer
I am an active Legal Designer for over 15 years and I am consulting and conduct Legal Design projects for law firms, inhouse legal departments and legal tech companies.
I want to join the community for more collaboration, coaching, mentoring and to create synergies in concrete projects.
Legal professional
I'm keen to re-design legal-proceses and -products.
Legal Counsel & Automation Coach | Principal Lawyer
Hello friends! I have been a big fan of the work Visual Contracts has done for a long time and am slowly trying to influence the redesign of every contract I come into contact with. I have led several large redesign projects at Australia's largest telecommunications company and am learning more and more with every project.
Modern lawyer
I run Support Legal and provide legal design and development services to my lawyer clients
Senior regulatory counsel, Legal, Financial Regulatory
In my day-to-day work in the financial sector, as well as in my position as academic at the Institute for Financial Law at the Research Centre for Finance and Law at Radboud University Nijmegen I am dealing with the complexity of financial regulation.
In these roles, it is my ambition to provide insight and clarity into this area of law.
I think Legal Design Thinking can contribute to this ambition and I am interested in exploring the possibilities further.
Your skills
Why do you think Legal Design Thinking is important? Why would you want to become one the Visual Contracts co-creators?
Accredited Blue Ocean Strategy Consultant, General Practice Lawyer (Australia + New Zealand), Information Technology Professional
#innovativeCounsel ™ aka #iC is a #NewLaw term to define what I believe clients' need: A new breed of lawyer -> multi-disciplinary, proactive + #ValueFocused. Blue Ocean Strategy is part of the DNA of our law firm. Part of Blue Ocean Strategy is to "Chart new markets" by studying, interacting + observing our non-clients. In other words, who would never use a law firm and why?
Legal Design Thinking. We have started by using Smart Lists as a way to "visually" share knowledge + interact with our Blue Ocean of non-clients.
By way of showcase: Our Master Smart List The innovation journey continues with Visual Contracts...
Manager Internal Control
I'm working as Manager Internal Control for Aegon, with special interest in Privacy and Behavior. In those topics I notice a lot of text and little visuals in for example Privacy statements or Code of Conducts. For Enterprise Riskmanagement Aegon had a visual frequently used by Riskmanagement and business in reports. With my team we are working on a new privacy statement and I was tipped by Aegon Global Privacy Officer on this site and subject.
For my education (Master Riskmanagement) I am investigating the possibility and benefits of a more visual statement.
Legal professional
I am a lawyer and passionate about design. I'm from Brazil, but I'm living now in Amsterdam.
UX designer
I am an Architect based out of India & have recently shifted to User experience design ,
Law; Sustainability; Business and Human Rights; Design Thinking; Interactive Design
I am a young lawyer from Costa Rica who wishes to revolutionize the legal market here.
Lawyer - Colombia Working on EX in labor law and UX in consumer law Plain language fan and Illustrator enthusiast
With more than 20 years of experience, the last 10 years I have been trying to change the clients mindset, to understand and implement creative alternatives focused on people to improve compliance in general. Founder of my Law firm, and member of Red de Lenguaje Claro in Colombia, I am committed to help companies to communicate better and in a more clear way with their employees, contractors and consumers, for them to understand not only the legal requirements, but how to comply with them.
Privacy counsel
I am an allround privacy professional in the financial industry. I like to bring ideas from collegues with different backgrounds together in an efficiënt way. I experienced that drafting a visual together is a great way to get a joint understanding, f.i. in a privacy impact analysis process.
I would like to share ideas and best practices to improve design thinking, because there is much more in it for all of us!
Inclusive Designer and User Researcher (and ex Lawyer)
In my previous life, I was a Human Rights and Public Law lawyer working across education, prison, deprivation of liberty, social security, housing, and immigration. I've also worked in International Law at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, in Ramallah, and elsewhere. Wanting to explore innovation and design solutions to social issues, I left legal practice in 2017 to retrain as a Designer. Now, as a User Researcher and Designer, I work across information, physical and digital product, and service. I specialise in Inclusive Design, seeking to research and design products, services and information that is accessible to and inclusive of all in society.
Employment law/Arbeidsrecht
I believe legal design thinking can be a way to create contracts for persons that aren't legally trained and, as a consequence, make such contracts more clear.
Sr Interaction Designer / UX strategist
As designer I am interested in solving complex design problems.
Making complex legal contracts easier to grasp and understand for the parties involved (the users) sounds like a very interesting area for designers
Employment law / Litigation
My work as a lawyer is all about providing solutions to people's problems and to
Lawyer and Journalist (Labour Law)
We are experts in Labor Law (employment), Social Security, Migratory Law, and last year we expanded our services in commercial law.Cardozo Ordóñez , was founded in 1980 by Hernando Cardozo Luna (CEO of the firm) and is a boutique firm with more than 38 years of experience in the market, provides advisory in English and in Spanish, to national and multinational companies in the following area: labor, immigration, social security, bargaining and union relations, litigation and audit and training services.
What I really want, is to learn about visual contracts and legal design, in order to innovate inside my law firm (30 years), and
get recognition as one of the first law firms in Colombia that implement these services.
Contract management
I work as a contract manager in the aerospace industry. I often work with engineers to make sure that a program's needs are met through the resulting contract. I find that engineers and members of the program team find contracts boring and/or "in the way" of doing what the members of the program team needs to do.
Legal Service Designer
I'm Karol from Peru, I studied Law, but after 4 years being a corporate lawyer & DPO I decided to become a legal tecnologist, so I started study a little bit of programming, a little bit of UX/UI, a lot of design & Behavioral Science and I become a HYBRID profile between law, tech & of course Design.
My purpose is to Humanize Law
Attorney-at-law specialized in commercial contracts, IT and privacy law.
As an attorney-at-law at Pellicaan Advocaten I am always aiming to deliver the best services to my clients. In my opinion it is essential that my advice and the contracts and statements I draft are as accessible and clear as possible. As the law can be very complex and full of terms that have a certain judicial overtone this can be challenging.
Traditional Law Practice: Criminal, Civil and Administrative Litigation (70%). Contracts Drafting and Negotiation (30%). New Law: Legal Products Development (Standardization of legal processes/services offered as products).
Most of the legal difficulties faced by people and organizations in Mexico derive from the lack to access of legal information and advice. And lawyer`s bad reputation and expensive fees tends to keep them away. That´s my call after going through 3 different law firms practicing mostly criminal and civil litigation for around 10 years (2008-17). Having a LLM experience (UC Berkeley- class 17) gave me (i) the opportunity to contrast Mexico´s reality and my ideas with a community of top ranked professionals from all around the world, and (ii) the tools to idealize and create My Dear Lawyers (my proposal to solve people-lawyers distancing).
My Dear Lawyers was launched last November 20th by Co-Founders Luis Rivera, Daniel Guillén Zolezzi and myself. We develop and produce standardized and affordable legal products to cover people´s primary legal needs.
Data Protection; IT Law; IPO, Mergers & Acquisitions
Simplicity was really important to me.
Engineering - applying technology to real-world challenges.
To build an automation tool which will transform the way legal transactions take place.
Clinical Contracts Consultant
I wish to be a Legal Design Thinker to simplify clinical trial contracts in the pharmaceutical industry
Legal design, legal theory, Preventive law, Dispute prevention and conflict management, legal education, legal innovation, contracts
I have always been a designer of legal products and have worked 22 years disseminating
Executive
I want to learn more about the possibilities.
Lawyer
I am a recent graduate of IT Law MA and the experiences I gained during
Legal Counsel/ Attorney At Law
I am an Attorney at Law and organization strategist who helps solving corporate disputes and fundamental liberties issues. People associate lawyers with hefty fees and this is not far from the truth. There is a real need for more effective legal solutions that are of high quality. Therefore I am always looking for solutions on how to do things differently. I look for ways to make things better and to create products or services that make the world a better place.
I would like to use my legal skills to help people in most efficient and effective way possible through integrating legal design, business viability and technology.
Service Design, UX design, Design Research, Visual Thinking, basic Legal Thinking skills, basic coding skills
I started Visual Contracts to bring together my interests, curiosity, perseverance and skills in visual thinking, UX Design, Service Design, innovation, entrepreneurship and creating equal opportunties for all. Discovering how much more I like legal than I have ever thought before I entered this field as a designer,
UX/UI Designer
As a UX Designer in the legal sector, i have discover that there is a lot to do for a global change.
The mentality has to change from a lawyer perspective to a user centric design
Sr. VC Lawyer
I am a lawyer specialized in Venture Capital and Startups, legal design thinker and web developer from Argentina.
Internet of Things, Product Design, Creative facilitation
As an Industrial Designer and Entrepreneur, I work with Design Thinking and Legal Documents every day, so the combination of the two is something I want to put a heavy focus on. My company, Anything Connected, focuses on the Internet of Things, a market in which privacy plays an important role.
IT, Telecommunications and Data Protection lawyer with 21+ years PQE with a specific interest in innovation of the legal profession
In my daily work as an ICT lawyer I always try to provide legal advice in a creative non-conventional manner that suits the requirements of my client and his audience (eg. consumers, website users etc). Improving my legal design skills will help me being a better lawyer. It is also a great excuse to introduce a more playful approach into the legal profession.
Having a basic capability in legal design is a skill set I believe every attorney/lawyer should have available.
Lawyer and Legal Tech Entrepreneur. Specialized in IT and IP Law.
As a Lawyer involved in the technology business, I can tell there are great validated assumptions to have some certainty that legal services can be completely transformed and redesigned to better serve its users.
Designer/marketeer/visual artist
I'm a designer, marketeer and visual artist with almost 20 years of experience. I work in the legal industry for about 6 years.
The more I learn legal design thinking, the more I want to learn more.
My background is in architecture. I'm architect. Throughout over 20 years I have been serving other designers in the industry. First on visual communication, making their visions into images and animations using always the latest computing power and most advanced rendering solutions. Later on, these days, core focus is on BIM (building information modelling) pipelines including the visual collaboration.
From where we get to the point: visual contracts. We know that lot of troubles still emerge at real construction sites specially among sub-contractors when they clash on contract borders. For that to happen less we built an application to capture the spoken promise into a trusted video contract..
Law/ Canadian Immigration/software for the legal field/unbundled legal services
Canadian Immigration, software for the legal field, unbundled legal servicesLegal design is relevant for me because my main purpose is to make the law more accessible, digestable, and and useable for the average consumer of itl.
Legal
Cliënten van me hebben mogelijk de behoefte om op een meer creatieve wijze met policies om te gaan (voor websites etc.). Ik zou hen graag willen informeren over Visual Contracts.
Lawyer and also marketer & illustrator.
I'm lawyer but I work in my free time as an Illustrator, so
Legal consultant at AirHelp with focus on legal tech
My role entails to find innovative solutions to address the needs of legal departments and lawyers, therefore, I work closely with product managers and software developers.
A few weeks ago we started with the 'LATAM co-creation project' in which we are (re)designing a visual employment contract for the LATAM region. The community members that take part in this project are: Martha Peña from Colombia, José Rodriguez from El Salvador, Eduardo Montemayor from Mexico and Visual Contracts' founder Lieke Beelen from the Netherlands. In this blog you can follow the steps we took during the project and what we learned from it.