Better legal design Why legal design is in-house counsels’ new best friend For in-house lawyers, getting the business to engage properly, and (we can dream) enthusiastically with legal processes and documents is a familiar struggle.
Better legal design Why legal design is the answer for time-crunched in-house lawyers Legal had to be so user-friendly that it would be implemented easily, first-time and with minimal follow-up questions. That need was what led me to legal design.
Better legal design Check out our webinar: Legal design for in-house Regular readers of our blog know how obsessed we are with legal design. It’s behind so much of what happens at Juro: the necessity to put users at the heart of legal processes, and start with their needs – not those of the lawyers. It drives what we do, and how and why we do it.
Better legal design Why the time has come for design thinking and visualisation in legal documents A business that goes to great lengths to communicate its content in a way that consumers can understand will be perceived as a business you can trust, and that is committed to transparency.
Better legal design Privacy by design: building a privacy policy people actually want to read We’ve been banging on about legal design at Juro for some time now. So, when it came to updating our privacy policy ahead of GDPR it was important to us from the get-go that our privacy policy was not simply a compliance exercise.
Better legal design Writing privacy notices people will actually read: A GDPR legal design challenge Clear, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible. Not words that always apply to documents coming out of legal. But a privacy policy that meets these requirements is no longer a nice-to-have. The GDPR actually requires this of your privacy notice.
Better legal design Legal design sprints: the cheat code to better processes? Google built its own design sprint framework in 2010. And when they started to promote and share their five-step framework for sprints with the wider world, it was obviously a technique with wide application. Could this be a useful tool for in-house legal?
Better legal design Design patterns for contracts: or how you’ve been doing contracts wrong this whole time (and how to fix it) Commercial lawyers of the world: you’ve been doing contracts wrong this whole time. Here we consider how design patterns could and should help you rethink contracting, driving success for your clients – and isn’t that the ultimate goal?
Better legal design Tech businesses: how to scale legal in harmony with the business Fridges full of beer, cool people being hired, the product roadmap becoming reality: when a startup moves to high growth it’s a thrilling time for everyone at the office, right?
Better legal design How to become a data-driven legal team (and how it helps you win) Fuelling your legal department’s tank with data can unlock efficiency. And not just for legal – for the business as a whole. But how do you actually operationalise this and make your team truly data-driven?
Better legal design How in house lawyers can benefit from legal design Being an in-house lawyer in 2017 can be hard. Whether it is the pile of 1,346 emails sitting in your inbox, relentless pressure from the business to take a ‘commercial’ view or fighting fires in the Courts, it is not a job for the faint hearted.
Better legal design Good lawyers have nothing to fear from technology Juro CEO and cofounder Richard Mabey expressed his view that the legal services industry has a bright future ahead of it.
Better legal design The future of legal services is technology The legal services market is not known for innovation. Over the last few hundred years, participants in this $800bn industry have enjoyed high margins, hourly fees and an elevated social status.