SKILL ROADMAP 76 · ADVANCED AND EMERGING PATHS

Legal Product and Innovation

User problems → Legal design → Prototypes → Testing → Product thinking → Launch and improvement

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1 What this path is

Legal product and innovation work designs new ways of delivering legal services and information, from clearer documents to digital products.

The work involves understanding users, design thinking and turning legal knowledge into usable products.

Understand user problems.
Learn: to talk to users and identify real problems.
Practise: by interviewing five law students about a problem they face.
Learn legal design.
Learn: how plain language and visual design make legal information easier to use.
Practise: by redesigning a confusing legal document.
Build prototypes.
Learn: to make quick, simple versions of an idea.
Practise: by building a clickable prototype.
Test with users.
Learn: to gather feedback and improve.
Practise: by testing your prototype with users.
Think like a product person.
Learn: to prioritise features and measure success.
Practise: by writing a short product plan.
Launch and improve.
Learn: to launch small and improve steadily.
Practise: by launching a small legal information product.

You lead legal product or innovation work.

These checklists are for honest self assessment. They are not an official certification.

Legal tech companies, innovation teams and access to justice organisations.

Before and after designs, prototypes and product plans.