In Print: Law by Design

Law by Design

In Print: Margaret Hagan JD’13


Self-Published

Excerpt: “When we (in the world) of law talk about innovation, often we end up in one of two discussions. First, there is resistance—with lawyers listing off all of the barriers to why change won’t happen, why it hasn’t happened, and what will stop it from happening. Or alternatively, we end up in a haze of technophilia—with lawyers and experts extolling the wonders of technology, artificial intelligence, and data, and how they will transform (if not displace) our current world of legal services. People in either of these camps don’t tend to talk to each other, or find very constructive ways of bridging their radically different views of the future of legal services.

“In this book, I advocate for a design-driven approach to legal innovation. Design is the way to generate promising ideas for how legal services could be improved, and then get them developed in quick and effective ways.”