Simona Stagliano
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.
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Caro Mennen
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.
Legal Design Thinking is an innovative and interesting approach that could help to further develop and support (the quality of) the services I provide.
Janiece Spicer
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.
I want to break down these barriers and 1) show the importance of the legal terms and 2) make the legal terms understandable so that the teams fully understand the importance of the contract and make educated decisions during the course of program execution
...the alternative is often working "around" contracts and has the potential to put our programs at risk.
Jose Maria Recio Alferez
Lawyer and also marketer & illustrator.
I'm lawyer but I work in my free time as an Illustrator, so
I'm very interested in everything about 'visual perception' in this area.
Jolanda Salomons
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.
Lieke Beelen
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,
I believe many more people can make the shift in perceiving law as a way to substantiate, instead of perceiving it as a "necessary evil" if we "just" design a different medium for it.
As the founder of Visual Contracts I'm curious about why other members sign up, what they would like to learn and how we could together further develop and apply the Legal Design Thinking approach.
Gilles Raaijmakers
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.
This, in my opinion, can result in a reduction of legal disputes and conflicts in general.
Caroline Ragan
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.
Simona Stagliano
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.
I want to participate in projects that makes justice more accessible for consumers.
Judith Vieberink
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.
Emine Sali
Lawyer
I am a recent graduate of IT Law MA and the experiences I gained during
my studies made me realize it doesn't matter how much you know if you cannot explain yourself to others.
I came up to the conclusion that I need to find a way to make law more understandable and accessible to non-legal people since I will be working with them. Therefore, I'm here to become a legal design thinker.
Jeroen van Diesen
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.
As a designer, legal design thinking comes with a wide range of possibilities. It’s a new discipline that keeps evolving and being able to help develop it, makes it really exiting.
As a person, I find the idea of being able to help people access their rights even more exiting. I truly believe we can make a difference.
Arthur van den Hurk
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.
Gemma Juarez
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.
Discovering legal technology and innovation, particularly design thinking and user experience design and how it can improve the law and the delivery of legal services was a mind blowing moment for me. It all made sense, and it aligned perfectly with who I am and my approach at life.
Being a Legal Design Thinker allows me to be as a lawyer and professional the best version of myself. To work on improving the experience with the law and the legal procedures into a justice friendly experience. The law is for everyone, so everyone should be able to understand it. I´d apply the Legal Design Thinking in three ways: at my work, in the Legal Hackers events and through consulting, helping other lawyers join the human-centered, creative problem-solving approach.
Jeroen Schouten
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.
Frederik Westerouen van Meeteren
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.
I'm part of this community to learn how I can develop new applications based on user data, without acting unlawfully or making my customers feel uncomfortable.
The reason for that is that I think Legal Design Thinking is the essential skill for dealing with such privacy challenges!
Eduardo Montemayor
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.
Tomas Westerholm
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..
Catalina Cardozo
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.
Phyllis van den Hout
Employment law / Litigation
My work as a lawyer is all about providing solutions to people's problems and to
present options that support them in their endeavor. I think that Legal Design Thinking is a creative tool that can help me reach that goal.
Maria Solarte
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
the preventive law approach, based in the use of alternative interfaces.
I am in academia and also in the legal practice as a legal negotiator and contract risk manager.
José Rodríguez
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.
I strongly believe that through Legal Design, new outcomes and opportunities will appear in this ecosystem, making it more user centered and creating new paths in the legal profession.
Technology may also bring a completely new generation of legal services, increasing satisfaction and guaranteeing a better user experience among different stakeholders involved around the Law.
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Ximena Araya
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.
I wish to promote access to justice, innovation of legal services and public policy design.
I am currently working as a sustainability advisor for Alianza Empresarial para el Desarrollo, a non-profit-organization that prometes sustainable development among public and private companies. One of my main work pilars is design thinking and innovation, also because our organization is on the path towards becoming the Copenhaguen Institute of Interactive Design's local chapter in Costa Rica. I wish to extend my knowledge in legal design and one day create my own legal design organization in Costa Rica.
Sander Oude Veldhuis
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
I would like to help legal experts as well as the layman to understand one another.
Fırat Kavlak
Data Protection; IT Law; IPO, Mergers & Acquisitions
Simplicity was really important to me.
I wanted people to expend their creativity thinking about new things to design of law.
Law is the basic of life so if we will do it everything is easy for our future..
James Ford
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.
The bonus is that our existing clients now have access to an innovative solution that would never have existed if we had only focused on their needs.
By way of showcase: Our Master Smart List The innovation journey continues with Visual Contracts...
Andrea Montella
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.
Chris Maxwell
Engineering - applying technology to real-world challenges.
To build an automation tool which will transform the way legal transactions take place.
Boyd de Groot
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