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The benefits of legal design
1. Analysis and understanding
By visualizing abstract legal concepts, lawyers can better understand complex issues and communicate more effectively with clients and colleagues. This includes:
- Infographics
- Easy document navigation
- Icons and illustrations
2. Cooperation
Using drawings and visualizations promotes collaboration and shared insight among team members. This can be achieved by:
- Fast prototypes
- Sketches
- Brainstorm sessions
3. Overview and clarity
Visual displays simplify complex scenarios, giving both lawyers and clients a quick insight into the case. Since, on average, people only 30 seconds spending time reading and understanding information, it is crucial that the content is presented clearly and clearly. Your work shines, or is missed 🥲
Implementation of legal design in five steps
Step 1: Fact-finding
Use a visual approach to organize large amounts of information, such as creating a timeline of relevant facts or mapping involved parties and their relationships.
Step 2: Legal Interpretation
Use decision charts or other visual aids to make legal questions and issues understandable so that lawyer and client can make more informed decisions.
Step 3: Communication with clients
Inform clients about procedures, crucial documents, and deadlines using infographics or visual representations.
Step 4: Procedural documents
Integrate visual elements from previous steps into court documents, such as a timeline in the subpoena or an overview of the parties involved.
Step 5: Pleas
Use infographics or visual presentations during the plea to give the judge a quick and effective insight into the case.
Legal design in the law firm: four action points
1. Create awareness and support
Organize workshops or training courses to familiarize employees with legal design and the principles of design thinking and user experience.
2. Integrate legal design into office culture
Encourage the use of visual elements and understandable language in all communication. A simple course in Canva can already make a big difference.
3. Appoint a legal design officer
Appoint a person or team within the firm who is responsible for promoting and implementing legal design. Like a data protection officer, they can focus on complying with legal design within your company and support colleagues in applying these techniques.
4. Invest in tools and software
Use software and tools that support legal design, such as diagrams, mind mapping, and presentation software. This helps lawyers incorporate visual elements into their work more effectively.
5. Stay up to date with best practices
Attend workshops, conferences, and webinars to stay up to date with the latest developments and best practices in legal design.
Conclusion: The future of the legal profession with legal design
Legal design is a powerful tool that helps law firms communicate more effectively and have a greater impact on clients, judges, and other stakeholders. By applying legal design in daily practice, law firms can stand out from the competition and achieve higher customer satisfaction.
Start applying legal design to your practice today by following the steps above and invest in a future where legal services become more accessible and understandable to all stakeholders.
