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Legal Design Thinkers

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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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Chris Maxwell

Engineering - applying technology to real-world challenges.

To build an automation tool which will transform the way legal transactions take place.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ramon Frankfort

Corporate law, bankruptcy law, mediation

I see legal design as a way to simplify business in general and more specific contracting.

By applying legal design I hope to make contracts that my clients will understand and use. Doing so gives my clients an advantage in conducting their businesses and thus will give my firm an extra selling point.

Apart from that, and perhaps more important, I think that legal thinking may contribute to greater sustainability. Smart contracts will probably have a smaller footprint than lengthy documents that will be printed without being read. In the third place, better contracts are easier to work with, leading to happier employees or other users.

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..

Jeroen van Diesen

Graphic design & conceptual design

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.