Build facilitation skills to become better at making change happen
You don’t need to become a full-time designer to use design well.
If you’re the person bringing people together, improving legal work, or pushing an idea forward — as a lawyer, a legal consultant, or the professional a client brought in specifically for this — knowing how to actually lead the process changes what you’re capable of walking into a room and doing.
Lawyers Design School courses build practical facilitation skills, human-centered design, and contract design, using methods pulled from years of real work with legal teams.
Learn by doing. Practice on real challenges. Take the skill back into your own work, or straight into your next client engagement.
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• Free Starter Kit for Legal Design
Are you curious about legal design?
Grab our free Starter Kit for Legal Design. It’s a practical toolkit and video trainings to kickstart your journey into legal design.
Add empathy, simplicity, and creativity to your legal work and elevate customer experience.
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SELF-PACED COURSE
Contract Design School online course
Design contracts people can understand and use.
Go beyond drafting a legally correct contract. Learn to design one around the people who’ll actually create, negotiate, and use it.
Contract Design School walks you through the contract design process step by step — from understanding users and identifying what needs to change to redesigning, prototyping, and testing your own contract.
You’ll learn how to combine legal expertise with human-centered design, landing on contracts that are clearer, more usable, and built for the job they’re actually there to do.
The self-paced legal design course includes the LDS contract design framework, practical tools and templates, and the Contract Design Companion – an AI for lawyers tool to support you as you put the methods into practice.
Best for: lawyers, contract professionals, legal consultants, and legal teams who want to improve contracts and contracting to actually work better through human-centered design.
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Legal Design Facilitator online course
Learn to lead workshops that move real work forward.
A good workshop isn’t a pile of sticky-note exercises. It’s a deliberately designed process — one that helps people understand a challenge, think together, make real choices, and actually move.
If you’ve ever wondered how to become a facilitator who can hold a room through genuine ambiguity — not just run an agenda — this is where you start.
The Legal Design Facilitator Course teaches you how to design and facilitate participatory workshops for legal challenges, with the structure, tools, and confidence to guide a group from “we need to figure this out” to a meaningful next step.
You’ll learn to frame the challenge, pick the right methods, design the workshop’s arc, facilitate actual participation, and turn what happened in the room into something that outlasts it.
Built from years of facilitating legal design workshops with lawyers and legal teams worldwide, the course includes the LDS Facilitation Mentor — a facilitator AI practice partner grounded in LDS’s own facilitation methods and materials.
Best for: legal consultants, legal innovators, legal operations professionals, lawyers, team leads, and other change-makers who want to confidently facilitate collaborative legal work.
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Become a LDS Certified Facilitator
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The future LDS Certified Facilitator pathway will build on the Legal Design Facilitator Course and develop your ability to confidently apply and facilitate the Lawyers Design School Method in real legal challenges.
The focus won’t simply be on knowing more tools. It will be on knowing what to do, when to do it, why you’re doing it, and how to guide other people through the process well.
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Why learn with Lawyers Design School
Learn by doing it
Facilitation skills and human-centered design don’t come from memorizing a framework. They come from using the methods on a real challenge, seeing what happens, and trying again with what you learned.
Made for legal
No stretching generic design-school examples to fit your world. Every method here is built for legal work, legal professionals, and the actual constraints of legal challenges.
Built from practice
Shaped over years of designing and facilitating workshops with law firms, corporate legal teams, public organizations, and legal professionals around the world.
Simple enough to use
Forget a library of a hundred design methods. You need one clear process, a small set of well-chosen tools, and the judgment to know which one fits the moment.
Designed to travel back to work
Leaving able to do something you couldn’t confidently do before — that’s the point, whether it’s your own team or your next engagement.
How to become a facilitator
Build the capability to lead change — from inside a legal team, or as the consultant they bring in.
Sometimes the most useful thing isn’t an outside answer handed down. It’s someone — inside the organization, or brought in for exactly this — who knows how to ask better questions, involve the right people, and structure a process that actually moves a group forward.
Redesigning a contract. Facilitating an AI adoption workshop. Mapping a legal service alongside the people who use it. Helping a cross-functional team see why a process keeps breaking. Or getting people with wildly different expertise — legal, business, technical — into the same room to solve something together, whether that’s your job from inside the team or as the innovation consulting partner they called in.
That’s the capability we’re here to build.