Margaret Hagan of Stanford University has posted Law for Normal People, at Open Law Lab.
Here are excerpts from the post:
Over this past fellowship year, I’ve run so many workshops and pop-up classes on how to make law more engaging and usable for “normal people”.
People with legal problems or who aren’t highly educated are not alone in this “normal” bucket. People with PhDs, highly paid professionals, even law school graduates fall into this category as well — they want and need...
Architecture and engineering are hardly what you think of when redesigning a law firm, at least when the redesign goes beyond the physical. But Yves Faguy in the National, the Canadian Bar Association's magazine's website, outlined how lawyers can learn from their more contemporary professional peers.
“The missions of law and design are not that separate and [are] quite powerful if you bring them together,” Margaret Hagan, the codirector of the Program for Legal Technology and Design at Stanford...