Legal design and Regulatory Compliance with Kerri Salata

Legal design is a powerful tool for enhancing understanding and remembering regulatory compliance requirements. Finance, government, and other highly regulated industries have rigorous reporting and disclosure requirements, and employees and stakeholders overlook compliance requirements because they forget about them. Failing to disclose or report a matter is unintentional. The employee simply forgets to do it. Legal design helps educate employees enjoyably and memorably and embeds compliance into everyday work. Legal design mitigates the risks of fines and other non-compliance ramifications for business.  

Kerri Salata and I talked about compliance and legal design this week on Legal Design IRL. Compliance is treated as a check-the-box exercise and is overlooked. Kerri shared her experience and expertise on how legal design can transform policies, procedures, and forms into simple, accessible resources. Legal design and compliance is not just about following the rules; it’s about genuinely comprehending them and integrating them into your organization.

Kerri is a lawyer, ethics, and compliance professional who helps companies meet their legal and regulatory requirements using practical and creative design-driven strategies. Kerri is the founder and principal lawyer at Comply With Me, a law firm delivering understandable and exciting learning content to the securities industry.

Tune in and learn how legal design makes legal compliance more than “ticking a box.”

The things we discuss are listed below.

1. Legal design in compliance 
2. Why legal design makes compliance requirements easy to remember
3. Compliance pain points
4. A presentation about legal design and compliance in the finance industry
5. Tools for design and compliance
6. Tips for using legal design in compliance work in the law
7. Connect with Kerri Salata on LinkedIn.

Legal design thinking: IRL. Episode 60

I’m Hannele Korhonen, founder of Lawyers Design School and Contract Design School. My goal with these schools and the Legal Design IRL series is to support legal professionals on their journey toward more user-centered lawyering.  

Legal Design IRL is a place for community, learning, and inspiration. Each week, I have thoughtful discussions with innovators who are finding creative solutions and bringing more understanding to legal services through legal design. It’s an opportunity for listeners to pause, reflect, and gain different perspectives on how to serve clients better. 

At Lawyers Design School, our workshops and courses are designed to gently and soulfully guide lawyers in adopting skills and mindsets focused on true user needs. We understand the challenges of transitioning practices, so we provide demonstrations, coaching, and a supportive network to make that journey smoother. Our goal isn’t to overhaul how you work overnight but to incrementally implement more empathetic, design-led approaches at your own pace.

If you feel drawn to designing with people in mind but aren’t sure where to start, please know you aren’t alone. I’m here to help make that next step less daunting. Why not join us – you’ll find an encouraging community here ready to help lift each other up.

If you enjoyed the talk, join Hannele Live every Wednesday at 8 a.m. ET on LinkedIn. The chat is open.

Learn more about  Legal Design and Contract Design and how they can transform your work and career in the law. Courses are open now.

You can catch a replay of episode 60, Legal Design Thinking: IRL, or join me live next week and ask questions. 

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