LEGAL DESIGN WORKSHOPS & CERTIFIED FACILITATION TRAINING
There’s change on the agenda.
Better ways for people changing legal.
Research-informed legal design thinking workshops that take legal teams from a messy legal challenge to a shared next step, and professional certification for the people who facilitate them.
Built on legal design, human-centered design and learning research. Made for the realities of legal work.
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Legal design for legal teams who know something needs to change
Legal gets involved too late, and the requests keep piling up. A contract makes perfect sense to the lawyers who drafted it and to almost no one else. New legal technology gets rolled out before anyone has defined the problem it’s meant to solve. Or people have genuinely different views on what should happen next, and no shared way to get there.
It’s tempting to skip straight to solutions. Most people do.
What helps is a process that puts the right questions on the table and the right people in the room. That’s the work of Lawyers Design School.
Through practical, research-informed legal design workshops and certified facilitators who know legal work, we help legal teams and the professionals who work with them reach shared understanding, better decisions and actionable next steps.
Our Legal Design Method
Human-centered design for complex legal change
Real change rarely starts with everyone agreeing on the problem.
People see things differently. They bring different experiences, assumptions and expertise. And the first solution that comes to mind isn’t always the one worth pursuing.
Our Legal Design Method gives teams a structured way to work through that complexity together.
Four steps. One connected process.
- Clarify who is the user – start with reality, not assumptions
- Choose what to design – find the problem worth solving
- Create a prototype – make possibilities tangible
- Collect feedback – learn before you finalise.
Then go again. What you learn in step four can send you straight back to step one, and that’s the process working.
The Method is the foundation of every Lawyers Design School workshop and of the certification that prepares facilitators to lead them. It gives teams a common approach while leaving room for different challenges, people and contexts.
Hannele Korhonen developed this Legal Design Method in 2021, adapting the Double Diamond framework for legal work. It has since been examined in peer-reviewed research on contract design as organisational learning (Korhonen & Toivonen, 2025).
Workshops for Legal Teams. Certification for Facilitators
For Legal Teams & Legal Departments
Make change happen. Work through a real challenge with a ready-designed workshops and a certified facilitator to guide your team and leave with a shared next step.
Become a Certified Facilitator
Become the person who leads it. Get certified in the Our Legal Design Method, license ready-to-run workshops and join the LDS roster to grow your facilitation practice.
Why Lawyers Design School?
Legal design built from practice, grounded in research.
Lawyers Design School was founded by Hannele Korhonen, a lawyer, facilitator and researcher working at the intersection of law, design and how people learn.
Our Legal Design Method grew out of real work: facilitating legal design processes, teaching lawyers and legal teams, and paying attention to what happened when human-centered design met a genuinely complicated legal problem.
The aim is simple: turn rigorous thinking into practical ways of working.
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Better ways for people changing legal
Change is complicated enough. Finding a way forward shouldn’t have to be.
Whether you’re improving how your legal team works or helping others lead that change, Lawyers Design School gives you a practical place to start.
Lawyers Design School – built for the realities of changing legal.