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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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.
Deborah Vella
Modern lawyer
I run Support Legal and provide legal design and development services to my lawyer clients
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.
Javier Eced
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
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Why do you think Legal Design Thinking is important? Why would you want to become one the Visual Contracts co-creators?
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
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.
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.
Mable Leong
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.
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.
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.
Verity White
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.
I hope to share my deep commercial and legal experience as well as my growing information design and legal UX skills, and learn from the best in this area!
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..
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.
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.
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.
Quim Alcantara
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.
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...
Anita Ganti
Executive
I want to learn more about the possibilities.
Chris Maxwell
Engineering - applying technology to real-world challenges.
To build an automation tool which will transform the way legal transactions take place.
Karol Valencia
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
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.
Jemma Queenborough
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.
I'm looking to use my design skills and legal background to improve the accessibility of Law to all.
Astrid Kohlmeier
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.
Philippe Prince-Tritto
Chief Executive Officer
The law is a tool that everyone should be able to understand and use.
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.
Martha Inés Peña
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.
Love to "chop" long and boring laws and translate them in flows, charts or graphics, keeping their legal level.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ana Alvarez
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.
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.
Ellien van den Assum
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!
Guilherme Leonel
Director
I want to share knowledge.
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.
Caroline Thangavelu
Clinical Contracts Consultant
I wish to be a Legal Design Thinker to simplify clinical trial contracts in the pharmaceutical industry
so that access to clinical research by patients can be accelerated.
With my legal background, I will be able to participate and provide input on contracts law.
Mohan Bm
Graphic Designer
i am a Graphic Designer
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.
Lily Ginsberg
Legal professional
I'm keen to re-design legal-proceses and -products.
From a legal background combined with a creative and visual mind I want to make an impact and transform the way our clients look at advocacy. This can be more adaptive and smarter ;)
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.
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.
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.
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.