LEGAL DESIGN WORKSHOPS FOR LEGAL TEAMS & LEGAL OPERATIONS

Make legal work better. Together.

A legal process. A contract. A client experience nobody’s happy with. A piece of technology sitting unused because nobody mapped how work actually flows before rolling it out.

“This isn’t working” is the easy part to diagnose. Finding the time, space and right approach to do something about it is harder.

Lawyers Design School Workshops give legal teams a structured, human-centered way to mto move forward. Each workshop brings the right people into the conversation, helps them understand the challenge and turns ideas into practical next steps.

You bring the challenge. We bring the process

Legal design workshops for legal operations and legal teams

Start with the challenge in front of you right now. Our workshops give you a structured process to move from “something needs to change” to a concrete way forward.

• Legal Processes Improvement Workshop

Make legal work flow better.

Requests arrive from everywhere. Work gets stuck in handovers. People develop workarounds because the official process doesn’t match reality.

This workshop helps your team map how legal work actually happens, identify friction and explore better ways to organize the flow of work.

What you’ll work toward: A shared view of the current process, its most important bottlenecks and practical improvements to test.

• Contract Design Workshop

Make contracts and contracting work better for the people who create, negotiate and use them.

A contract can be legally sound and still be difficult to understand, negotiate or put into practice.

This workshop looks at contracts and contracting through the eyes of the people involved: from Legal and the business to the people who ultimately need to use the agreement.

What you’ll work toward: Clearer user needs, identified friction points and ideas or prototypes for more usable contracts and contracting processes.

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• Legal Services & Client Experience Workshp

Make legal easier to work with.

Your team may be delivering valuable work, but the business doesn’t always experience or recognize that value. Requests come too late. Expectations differ. Legal gets involved when the options have already narrowed.

This workshop brings legal professionals and the people they serve into a shared conversation about what they need from each other.

What you’ll work toward: A clearer understanding of stakeholder needs, opportunities to improve the legal service experience and practical ideas for better collaboration.

Explore Legal Services & Client Experience

• Legal Technology & AI Adoption

Make technology work for people.

A new legal technology tool can look promising in a demo and still struggle to become part of everyday work.

This workshop starts with the people, tasks and workflows the technology is meant to support, rather than assuming adoption will follow implementation.

What you’ll work toward: A clearer picture of user needs, adoption barriers and practical opportunities to improve how technology fits into legal work.

Explore Legal Tech & AI Adoption

Legal Design Workshop Facilitation

You bring the challenge. We bring the process and the facilitation

You don’t need another transformation project that demands months of preparation before anything happens.

Our workshop create a focused opportunity to bring people together, understand what’s getting in the way and explore what to do next. We don’t disappear into a back room and return with an answer. We design the process. Your people bring their expertise. The facilitator brings the structure, questions and methods that help turn that knowledge into progress. Together, we work through the challenge.

Depending on the challenge, the workshop may involve mapping a process, exploring stakeholder needs, developing ideas, building prototypes or testing assumptions.

The goal isn’t to leave with a room full of sticky notes. It’s to leave with something your team can use: clearer understanding, shared priorities, tangible ideas and agreed next steps.And because your team does the work, the payoff isn’t just the outcome. It’s the experience and confidence they carry into the next challenge, without needing us.

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Legal Design in Action: Case Studies from Real Legal Teams

Lawyers Design School has worked with law firms, corporate legal teams, government agencies and legal professionals around the world facilitating teams from Helsinki to Singapore to Chicago onsite and online on challenges spanning legal services, contracts, processes, innovation and technology.

The contexts are different. The way we approach the work is consistent.

An AI Adoption Legal Design Sprint with the innovation team of Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli.

How do you help lawyers adopt AI in ways that actually support their work?

Rather than starting with the technology, the team explored different lawyer personas, their needs and the barriers they faced in using AI tools. They then generated ideas and developed rapid prototypes for AI-enabled services. The challenge wasn’t simply implementing AI. It was designing for adoption.

Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency — Legal Processes & Communication

How could a government agency make a legal process and its communications work better for the people using them?

Customers and internal stakeholders worked together to identify problems in an existing process and its legal documents, leading to new guidance, prototypes and clearer communication.

City of Helsinki — Legal Services & Client Experience

How could Legal become more proactive and impactful for its internal clients?

In a workshop with 100 City of Helsinki lawyers, participants explored client needs across four design challenges, generated more than 500 ideas and developed prototypes for new ways of working.

European Union Intellectual Property Office — Legal Documents

How can lawyers create legal documents that work better for the people who use them?

In a workshop with 60 EU lawyers, participants explored users and their needs, then developed and presented prototypes for more user-friendly and visual legal documents.

Different challenges. Different contexts.

The same principle: understand before solving, involve the people who matter, make ideas tangible and learn by doing.

Start with the challenge in front of you

Maybe you know exactly what needs attention. Maybe you can only see that something isn’t working as well as it should.

Either is a good place to begin.

Tell us what your legal team is trying to improve, and we’ll explore whether an LDS Workshop is the right next step.