On today’s episode of Beyond Billables, we spoke to someone who is tackling the future of legal practice with the elegant touch of a designer. Meera Sivanathan is the co-founder and head legal designer at Dot. Prior to Dot. Meera worked as a lawyer for a leading international law firm in Sydney. She has extensive experience providing both legal and strategic advice relating to M&A, funds management, and private equity & venture capital.

In our conversation with Meera, we talked all about her work as a legal designer and how her team is developing innovative, human-centric and legally sound solutions for organisations, markets, and society. We traced her career origin story from Australia to Finland, talked about primary industry problems, improving end-user experiences, empathy, empowerment and touched on her advice for future lawyers.

Listen to the full episode to hear all of the above, plus things like...

• The mindset of Nordic design
• The transformational power of empathy
• Why fast, low-cost testing is often the way to go
• The danger in linear thinking
• The definition of legal design
• Examples of how legal design is being used
• How to bring about different divisions within a law firm
• A breakdown of the legal design process
• The difference of getting a simple legal document today Vs. past
• How legal design is empowering people
• What lawyers can do to prepare for the future
• Why the old student/teacher relationship of the attorney/client needs to change
• How good design is often simple design
• Why competing on expertise along isn’t enough anymore
• Why there is no such thing as a ‘bad’ idea

 

Links:

Linkedin
Legal Design
Dot. - resources