Fundamentals of Legal Design

Future-proof your career and practice with Bond University's legal design microcredential

Lawyers have the opportunity to thrive in today's complex, uncertain world by innovating and adapting their practice to the 21st Century. Legal design will help you to future-proof your career by embracing creativity and digital transformation.

This course is perfect for any legal professional who is striving to deliver services that exceed client expectations, create more user-friendly legal advice and bring an innovative mindset to their projects.

Legal design is one of the fastest growing areas in law which focuses on the application of design principles to innovate, create client-centric products and services, and solve complex legal problems. Through this course you will learn how to use legal design to transform teams, generate creative ideas and optimise the efficiency, useability and relevance of systems and services. You will unlock legal design strategies, tools and methods to gain a competitive edge and generate added value to your workplace. The course also gives you access to tried-and-tested templates to initiate legal design projects, and establish metrics that effectively measure and showcase the influence of legal design.

Designed and delivered by Meera Klemola – a renowned legal design expert, author, and keynote speaker – this course comprises six immersive online modules alongside dynamic practical exercises. Immerse yourself in case studies and gain expert insights from global industry leaders. You will also have access to group check-in sessions with Meera herself, fostering an environment to exchange ideas, ignite discussions, and forge meaningful connections with fellow participants.

Upon completion of the microcredential, you will be formally recognised with a digital Certificate of Achievement from Bond University.

Master the skills, knowledge and mindsets of legal design

Course information

Module 1: Building Blocks of Legal Design – Develop the essential principles and mindsets to drive legal design mastery.
Module 2: What is Legal Design – Explore design holistically as a mindset, skillset and process. Then, tie this holistic understanding of design into the context of law, to establish what is legal design.
Module 3: The Legal Design Process – Execute design in practice with practical tools, fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration and innovative problem-solving.
Module 4: Change Management in Legal Design – Propel organisational change and strengthen your design-driven legal prowess. Investigate the common existing barriers faced and the supportive actions to strengthen legal design efforts and manage change towards a more design driven legal team and organisation.
Module 5: Legal Design in Practice – Draw inspiration from industry giants, learning how to apply legal design for groundbreaking client service.
Module 6: Data Informed Legal Design – Harness the potential of data and learn to set performance indicators that demonstrate the value of your projects.
Assessment:
- Online quizzes
- Assignment: Your legal design project pitch
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Who should complete this course?

This transformative course is made for legal practitioners, legal innovation teams, legal operations personnel and law students determined to enhance legal encounters, tackle contemporary challenges, anticipate evolving client demands, and infuse an innovative approach into their ways of working.

Prerequisites
Participants should possess a foundational understanding of law and legal practices.
Course outcomes
Upon completion of this course you will be able to:
- Recognise the fundamental principles of legal design
- Master the key phases in the legal design process and how design methods are used to innovate
- Identify barriers and supportive actions to building a design-driven team
- Craft compelling key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the value of a legal design project
- Create your own impactful legal design project pitch that’s ready to use in your organisation
Upon successful completion you will qualify with a formally recognised Microcredential in Fundamentals of Legal Design from Bond University and certificate in recognition of your new competencies.

Module 1: Building Blocks of Legal Design – Develop the essential principles and mindsets to drive legal design mastery.

Module 2: What is Legal Design – Explore design holistically as a mindset, skillset and process. Then, tie this holistic understanding of design into the context of law, to establish what is legal design.

Module 3: The Legal Design Process – Execute design in practice with practical tools, fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration and innovative problem-solving.

Module 4: Change Management in Legal Design – Propel organisational change and strengthen your design-driven legal prowess. Investigate the common existing barriers faced and the supportive actions to strengthen legal design efforts and manage change towards a more design driven legal team and organisation.

Module 5: Legal Design in Practice – Draw inspiration from industry giants, learning how to apply legal design for groundbreaking client service.

Module 6: Data Informed Legal Design – Harness the potential of data and learn to set performance indicators that demonstrate the value of your projects.

Assessment:

- Online quizzes

- Assignment: Your legal design project pitch

Require an invoice for company payment? Email [email protected]

Meet your course instructor

Meera Klemola

Meera Klemola is globally recognised as one of the leading experts in Legal Design and human skills for legal professionals and teams, and holds multidisciplinary qualifications in law, design management and business.

Dubbed by The Legal Forecast as one of the first ‘Legal Designers’ and the host of the world’s first Legal Design Summit, Meera has been a trusted advisor to multinational brands, legal innovation teams and top-tier law firms helping them tap into design as a strategic tool to modernise legal thinking, introduce collaborative ways of working and innovate new-to-market legal services and products.

Meera is the co-author of The Legal Design Book: Doing Law in the 21st Century one of the first publications in this field.

Known for her fresh insights on the legal sector and where it’s going, Meera is a frequently requested keynote speaker and panel member at global conferences including Legal Geek (Europe’s largest legal tech conference), Daimler’s ‘Digital Life Day’, AltaCon (Australia’s largest legal tech conference) and Germany’s Brand & Design Congress.

Learn more about the course from Instructor, Meera Klemola

“Legal design is a worldwide movement transforming all aspects of the law. After finding out about it in 2022, I started trying to work out how to upskill when all the courses and conferences seemed to be in the northern hemisphere. When I found out about the Fundamentals of Legal Design course at Bond, I enrolled without hesitation.
The course is designed to be interactive, with information delivered in various formats. This is an effective way to remain engaged in the content. The practical examples of legal design were excellent and gave a snapshot of its enormous potential. I gained a solid theoretical knowledge of legal design, underpinned by excellent research that I’ll be able to use when discussing legal design with my clients. I appreciated how much content Meera presented via video, as well as the accessibility to Meera via scheduled catch up sessions.
I’d recommend this course to lawyers, paralegals, legal tech operators and anyone offering legal or quasi-legal services.

Kate Crocker | Past Fundamentals of Legal Design learner | Former Lawyer and current legal design copywriter - katecrockercopywriter.com.au

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