What is legal design?

The definition of legal design

Nobody understands what lawyers write. Hence the emergence of legal design. This method represents an approach that merges the principles of design and law to improve the accessibility, understanding, and effectiveness of legal information.

Focused on the user, this process aims to transform legal complexity into clear and engaging solutions, especially for lawyers looking to strengthen their communication with their clients.

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The benefits of Legal Design for lawyers

By adopting legal design, lawyers can not only optimize the clarity of their advice but also enrich the client experience, making the law more accessible and understandable.

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The benefits of Legal Design

This approach offers multiple advantages: improving legal understanding, strengthening the client-lawyer relationship, and promoting an innovative image of the firm. Legal design is therefore a strategic lever for legal professionals who want to stand out and improve their service. We talked about it in our article and video: Legal design to retain customers

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Legal Design: empathy at the heart of Design Thinking

Design thinking is based on empathy, creativity, and iteration to transform legal services. This method highlights the importance of deeply understanding the needs of users in order to co-create innovative, accessible and engaging legal solutions. By focusing on the user, legal professionals can simplify legal complexity, thereby promoting better understanding and interaction with the law.

Using Figma for Legal Design

Figma is a collaborative design tool for creating user interfaces, prototypes, and interactive legal documents. Its collaborative approach facilitates teamwork in the design of innovative legal solutions.

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Created with Canva

Canva simplifies the creation of attractive legal visuals such as infographics, brochures, or presentations. Its ease of use and template library make it a valuable tool for improving legal communication.

To learn more about these tools, I recommend that you take a look at the iconography and diagram templates!

Examples of legal design applications

To give you some examples, a social law lawyer can produce a schematized employment contract, simplified and interactive pay slips for company employees in order to improve the onboarding process and improve transparency.

For an M&A lawyer, this may be designing a clear outline of the partners' agreement, visualizing agreements, obligations, and decision structures.

In business, simplified statutes could be drawn up, offering a graphic overview of the rules governing the company, thus making it easier for all partners to understand them.

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