Legal Design and Operations
What is legal design?
“Legal Design” means applying the principles of design thinking to legal services.
It means designing legal products, services and processes with the end-user in mind, in order to create a positive experience and meet the needs of your employees, clients, suppliers and business partners.
It means designing legal products, services and processes with the end-user in mind, in order to create a positive experience and meet the needs of your employees, clients, suppliers and business partners.
- We avoid “jargon” and “legalese” and write contracts that are user-friendly and easy to understand.
- We create templates and processes that empower your teams to self-serve, minimising the need for ongoing legal advice.
- We help you implement tools and features that minimise risk, increase efficiency and reduce cost.
- We make “dealing with legal” easy, enjoyable, and scalable.
Are your legal operations delivering
a return on your investment?
Across almost all industries, compliance and regulation is becoming ever more complex and demanding. Lawyers are expensive, and budgets are limited.
Now, more than ever before, it is critical to find new ways to manage risk, to simplify and streamline legal processes, and to free up resource for the really complex, difficult things that all that legal training was designed for (which is not manually populating templates, negotiating low-value contracts, or dealing repeatedly with the same issues).
Through targeted consultancy services, we help you to assess the maturity of your legal function across 7 key building blocks, and identify and implement solutions that improve your ROI:
Strategic alignment
Risk indentified and managed in context of business goals
Policies
Policies, process and governance framework in place
Culture
Legal is a business partner; corporate values promote compliance
Resources
Allocated to most critical risks; costs controlled effectively
Systems
Technology is leveraged to increase efficiency and provide transparency
Measurement
Data driven metrics inform decision making and resource allocation
Monitoring
Ongoing review and continuous improvement
Strategic alignment
Risk indentified and managed in context of business goals
Policies
Policies, process and governance framework in place
Culture
Legal is a business partner; corporate values promote compliance
Resources
Allocated to most critical risks; costs controlled effectively
Systems
Technology is leveraged to increase efficiency and provide transparency
Measurement
Data driven metrics inform decision making and resource allocation
Monitoring
Ongoing review and continuous improvement
RETHINK LEGAL combines the benefits of an in-house legal function with the flexibility of an external provider.
Our legal solutions are customized to your needs, leveraging our network of legal experts across a range of disciplines and jurisdictions.