We use human-centric design and agile development methodology to design new solutions for legal services. We conduct exploratory design work and empirical research to rethink how the legal system works. Explore how new technologies, services, and policies can bring effective and ethical innovation to Stanford`s legal system. His projects at the Legal Design Lab include reviewing Google search results for legal issues and analyzing data on the American Bar Association`s online platform. She is excited about how technology and data can be used to provide better access to justice. Outside of school, Yue enjoys listening to podcasts about storytelling, knitting, and hiking. The Legal Design Lab is an interdisciplinary team at Stanford Law School & d.school that is building a new generation of legal products and services. Since 2013, Jorge has been working as a project manager at Francisco Marroquin Law School, where he participated in a project called « Rethinking Law School » to innovate in legal education. Nóra Al Haider is responsible for the policy and design of the laboratory. She is interested in combining the fields of law, technology and design to find human-centered solutions to complex problems. Nóra holds a bachelor`s degree (with distinction) and a master`s degree in research in law from Utrecht University.

In her spare time, she enjoys making art and traveling the world. Users read each story and then report if there are any legal issues – is there a family law issue? Housing law problem? Money and consumption problems? Once the stories are ranked at a high level, users mark more specific questions – is there a divorce issue? Guard? Domestic violence? When Learned Hands users tag posts, the app collects tags from multiple users to determine if there is consensus on the issues present in the posts. This then forms a « labeled disc ». The dataset can then be used to train machine learning models to automatically report text for existing legal issues. Gradually, as models learn from labels, they can automatically identify high-level and specific legal issues from people`s stories. Tom holds a JD from Stanford with a background in legal operations and management consulting. Prior to joining law school, Tom was a Legal Operations Associate at Google, where he led cross-functional projects focused on legal technology, knowledge management and process improvement. Prior to joining Google, Tom worked in the federal practice of Deloitte Consulting with a focus on health technology.

Tom currently supports the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC), a non-profit group dedicated to setting standards and best practices in legal services of all sizes around the world. At Stanford, Tom is co-director of the International Refugee Assistance Project and OutLaw, in addition to his involvement in the Legal Design Lab. Tom graduated in 2012 from American University with a bachelor`s degree in political science and law and society. Developing new models of legal aid that promote justice and access to the civil justice system Kevin was a student during his tenure as a JD candidate at Stanford Law School. His design and research focuses on the redesign of the Internet as a legal assistance and information portal for ordinary consumers. Prior to law school, Kevin served three years in the Obama administration as a political commissioner at the U.S. White House and Department of Commerce, focusing on political communications and media relations. Prior to joining the government, he worked as a media strategist in Malaysia and as a political activist and fundraiser in New Hampshire, North Carolina and Massachusetts. By using a participatory and user-centered approach, Guillermo was able to make water allocation within the organization more efficient and effective.

Guillermo is a member of several organizations related to environmental protection and water management in Chile, such as the Confederación de Canalistas de Chile and the Centro de Derecho y Gestión de Aguas de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She has been working with the Legal Design Lab for three years on projects such as the creation of the Navocado platform to train pro bono lawyers in new areas, improve the accessibility of online legal aid and optimize Internet search engines for legal issues. We organize customized presentations and workshops for courts, law firms, legal departments, legal aid groups, government agencies and foundations. Please contact us if you are interested in a workshop. In addition to our courses for students, the Legal Design Lab also works with legal organizations to train them in design thinking, take new initiatives, perform user testing, and plan how to bring innovation to their organization. Learned Hands is a web application developed by the Stanford Legal Design Lab in collaboration with the Suffolk LIT Lab and with the support of the Pew Charitable Trusts. The app creates a record labeled with stories of people talking about their legal issues. This labeled dataset can then be used to develop machine learning models + a classifier for natural language processing that may be able to automatically detect problems in people`s text. The app allows many lawyers, law students, and other members of the public to read people`s stories about possible legal issues (from the Reddit/LegalAdvice online forum, where people have agreed and the stories are all anonymized). Jessica is a published author, editor, and guest lecturer at Stanford University on a variety of topics related to patent law, strategy, and design. We work with courts, corporate legal services, law firms and legal aid groups to rethink how they deliver services.

In September 2017, our lab hosted the one-day Law + Design Summit on how a design approach could improve the legal system. It highlighted people who are already working on creative, user-centric ways to reshape legal services and processes. And we will have a workshop to develop new strategies for the future. The EFB LAB trains student lawyers in the challenges of transforming the profession and the professions of law. It invites them to build projects around « business » themes such as: new services, marketing, communication, legal design, internal organization, legal modeling, etc. As the appointed inventor of a number of patents, Jessica has a long history of developing and launching new inventions. His current interests include the invention and development of technological solutions for intellectual property lawsuits and litigation. In addition, Jessica explores law firm innovation and works to reinvent the law firm of the 21st century. Our lab develops new solutions to make the civil justice system more accessible and fair. Here are some of the projects we build, pilot and evaluate. A complete list of projects can be found at: legaltechdesign.com In addition, we organize innovation sprints in our laboratory every quarter.

In these sprints, we train teams in a user-centric design process and help teams study, prototype, and plan a challenge they bring with them. If your team would like to participate in an upcoming sprint, please write to us. Jane Wong was a 2017-18 post-JD fellow at the lab. She has worked on innovation in access to justice, with a focus on better coordinated legal services in the Bay Area. Jane graduated from Stanford Law School in 2017. During her studies, she worked as a student assistant in the lab on how to make dishes more accessible to the public. Juan is a Chilean lawyer interested in creating transparent dispute resolution systems and using ready-to-use solutions to improve trust in legal institutions. He is currently a Master of Laws candidate at Stanford University and in the lab involved in cross-functional projects where technology can provide meaningful access to justice, from simple legal issues to get legal aid in search engines, to better ways to respond to legal complaints with SMS.

Prior to Stanford, he worked as a research associate at the Organization of American States` Center for the Study of Justice. There, he gained a strong record of effective cooperation with governments in the implementation of criminal and civil justice reforms in Latin America. In addition to his participation in the lab, Juan is a member of the Stanford Program in International Legal Studies with a grant from the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies on Procedural Justice and Trust in the Chilean Judicial System.