Course : Legal Design: Rethinking and Enhancing Legal Communication

Practical course - 2d - 14h00 - Ref. LDE
Price : 1620 € E.T.

Legal Design: Rethinking and Enhancing Legal Communication



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Legal design helps make legal documents clearer, more readable, and more accessible, while maintaining their legal certainty. This training provides you with the methods and tools to rethink the presentation of your contracts, memos, and other legal documents, taking into account the needs of their recipients. You will develop a practical approach to legal design to enhance the effectiveness of your legal communication and elevate the status of the legal function within your organization.


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Practical course in person or remote class
Disponible en anglais, à la demande

Ref. LDE
  2d - 14h00
1620 € E.T.




Legal design helps make legal documents clearer, more readable, and more accessible, while maintaining their legal certainty. This training provides you with the methods and tools to rethink the presentation of your contracts, memos, and other legal documents, taking into account the needs of their recipients. You will develop a practical approach to legal design to enhance the effectiveness of your legal communication and elevate the status of the legal function within your organization.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Explain the fundamental principles and mechanisms of legal design
Identify the legal design tools and methods appropriate for various legal documents
Applying the principles of legal design to legal documents
Organize and format a legal document according to the principles of legal design. Please enter the learning objectives here.

Intended audience
In-house counsel, contract managers, compliance officers

Prerequisites
None

Practical details
Teaching methods
Self-assessment, case studies, practical exercises, collaborative workshops, individual and group reflection, and role-playing exercises based on legal documents. Legal design toolkit, visual contracts, empathy maps, plain language techniques, and visual thinking.

Course schedule

1
Defining the Fundamentals of Legal Design

    Compétences visées

  • Defining legal design and tracing its origins, from visual thinking to legal design
  • Identifying the Pillars of Legal Design
  • Distinguishing Legal Design from Plain Language and Understanding How They Complement Each Other

    Activités pédagogiques

  • Consider the characteristics of an ideal legal document.

    Outils et méthodes

  • Active Listening
  • Collaborative Mind Map

2
Integrating the Challenges of Legal Design

    Compétences visées

  • Identify the benefits and limitations of legal design
  • Analyze the issues and needs of a document's users
  • Tailoring Legal Communication to Different Audiences
  • Creating an empathy map to better understand the end user

    Activités pédagogiques

  • Create an empathy map in small groups

    Outils et méthodes

  • Empathy Cards
  • Group Sharing

3
Enhancing the Role of the Legal Function Through Legal Design

    Compétences visées

  • Identify how legal design can help strengthen the role of the legal professional as a business partner
  • Integrating legal design into an approach aimed at improving legal quality and contractual relationships

    Activités pédagogiques

  • Conduct an audit and analysis of a legal document

    Outils et méthodes

  • Group Sharing
  • Active Listening

4
Organize and format legal information

    Compétences visées

  • Apply the principles of plain language while maintaining legal certainty
  • Using the Main Tools of Legal Design
  • Applying visual thinking techniques to legal documents
  • Visually prioritize information to improve understanding

    Activités pédagogiques

  • Redesigning the presentation of a contractual element based on examples

    Outils et méthodes

  • Legal Design Toolkit
  • Group Sharing
  • Active Listening

5
Applying legal design to contracts and legal memos

    Compétences visées

  • Explain the concept of a visual contract
  • Identify the target audience and the end user
  • Reorganizing the Structure of a Long Legal Document
  • Writing Content in Plain Language

    Activités pédagogiques

  • Redesigning a legal memo by applying the principles of legal design
  • Redesigning a contract by applying the principles of legal design

    Outils et méthodes

  • Visual Contract
  • Active Listening
  • Group Sharing



This programme is an original creation, developed by the teaching teams at ORSYS Formation. Any reproduction, representation, adaptation or use, in whole or in part, without the prior written authorisation of ORSYS, is strictly prohibited. ORSYS reserves the right to take any action necessary to protect its intellectual property rights.

Dates and locations
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Dernières places
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REMOTE CLASS
2026 : 14 Dec.

2027 : 8 Mar., 14 June, 6 Sep., 29 Nov.

PARIS LA DÉFENSE
2026 : 7 Dec.

2027 : 1 Mar., 7 June, 30 Aug., 22 Nov.



This programme is an original creation, developed by the teaching teams at ORSYS Formation. Any reproduction, representation, adaptation or use, in whole or in part, without the prior written authorisation of ORSYS, is strictly prohibited. ORSYS reserves the right to take any action necessary to protect its intellectual property rights.