Contract design: Innovation for lawyers

What do these universities (and many others) have in common?

?? Harvard University

?? Stanford Law School

?? Duke University School of Law

?? Cornell University

?? Bond University

?? University of Newcastle

?? University of Melbourne

?? University of Western Australia

?? Queensland University of Technology

They all include legal design in the curriculum. TODAY.

Without overstating the obvious – legal design, information design, legal tech and contract design is not a passing phase. ?

And that’s great because it means lawyers can now embrace and explore new possibilities in law.

In this week’s episode of Legal Design IRL, I re-introduced contract design.

I talked about what contract design is, how it innovates traditional contracting, and most importantly how contract design and innovation help you thrive as a lawyer.

Because as lawyers, we spend a lot of time micro editing dull, boring precedent documents that no one wants to read. It’s not fun.

Contract design allows us to design contracts with intention – with the users at the forefront. It doesn’t mean you can’t use precedent documents – it means you can use contract design to innovate new ones – that allow clients to achieve their goals.

Imagine how many new lawyers are graduating from the universities I listed each year. They’ve got legal design mindsets and expect to use contract design in their work.

Are you ready to embrace them? And most importantly – keep up with them?

?? Tune in and see if contract design?is?for?you. Link to the talk below.