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Swipe Right on Empathy: The Key to Legal Design Success

Empathy is like getting to know someone on a first date. You have to ask the right questions, listen to their responses and understand their needs and wants.

If you don’t take the time to understand the other person, they’ll never tell their mother about you and it’s unlikely you will get another date.

Designing the law is the same way. It is not possible to design something useable that meets the needs of the client or the user unless you take the time to get to know the person you’re designing that ‘thing’ for.

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The Second Voyage: Explore the World’s First Legal Design Journal

Legal Design / Kerri A Salata

In order for legal design to mature and grow as a concept, it needed a home for writing and publication. The Legal Design Journal is that home.

Published online and free via open source, the Journal is gaining in popularity and success since its maiden voyage in June of 2025. And, it’s official! The second version of the Legal Design Journal is here.

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Thumbs Up to Using Visuals in Contracts: How Visuals in Contracts Will Survive Court

Law, Legal Design, Litigation / Kerri A Salata

👍 to Using Visuals in Contracts

For many legal practitioners, the thought of a visual contract is terrifying. The hold-up to greater adoption appears to be based on risk and concern about a court’s interpretation.

In my newest article in @SLAW, I explore a Dutch mock trial hosted by @Visual Contracts and its CEO @Lieke Beelen that explored this issue – can a visual contract survive trial? (drumroll…) YES, it can!

Would it survive in Canadian courts? I also believe that it can. Keene J’s decision in a 2023 Saskatchewan case tells us that Canadian society is heading in that direction and courts will have to be ready to meet these new challenges, “from emojis and the like.”

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Surveys…But, in Law?

Law, Legal Design / Kerri A Salata

You can find the full article posted on @SLAW: https://www.slaw.ca/2024/10/23/surveysbut-in-law/ For those in private practice, sending a survey to your client about how much they liked your service would be like shooting yourself directly in the foot. If you were unsuccessful or the client didn’t get the result they were hoping to achieve, there’s a

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Using Design Thinking to Solve Real-World Problems: My Experience Teaching Design Thinking to the OLG’s Governance, Legal & Compliance Group

Compliance, Law, Legal Design / Kerri A Salata

This Fall, I had the incredible opportunity to lecture at a three-part Innovation Masterclass workshop with Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG), introducing a group of Legal, Compliance, Governance and AML professionals to design thinking. As someone who practices legal design and applies these principles in compliance and the law, my goal was to show

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Lawyers Who Act & Give Back: Watching Seana McKenna Watch Paint Dry – the Remount

Wellness / Kerri A Salata

“Before J.D. Vance, we had our own cat lady, Twiss—an unapologetic lover of cats and Cats. Twiss, along with a cast of other lovable characters and a fantastic script inspired by the great Shakespearean actress Seana McKenna, is set to take the stage at the Palmerston Public Library Theatre (Toronto) from October 25-27….” Read about

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Guest Blog for the ADR Institute of Ontario: (Re)Designing the Mediation – Combining Service Design and the Law

Law, Legal Design / Kerri A Salata

Service design considers the ‘user’ in the process, like Starbucks. Designing your mediation practice to consider users, relationships and experiences can create a good service that markets itself. Through this article, we explore the intersection of design and the law.

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From Game Rooms to Courtrooms: How Virtual Reality (VR) Is Changing the Legal Landscape

Legal Design, Litigation / Kerri A Salata

Our latest SLAW article explores the use of Virtual Reality (VR) as a courtroom visual aid, emphasizing its potential to enhance understanding. Highlighting Resol-VR’s successful collaboration in creating a VR reenactment of a traffic accident, the article discusses the positive impact and future potential of VR in the Canadian legal system.

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Effective Use of Visual Aids in Mediation

Legal Design, Litigation / Kerri A Salata

Effective use of visual aids in mediation.

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Discovering Helsinki’s Waterfront Trail: One Lawyer’s Journey Through Nature and Design