Ep 061: Designing for Justice, with Stanford’s Margaret Hagan

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the legal industry, the concept of design thinking has become synonymous with the name</span> <a href= "https://law.stanford.edu/directory/margaret-hagan/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Margaret Hagan</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. Director of the</span> <a href= "https://law.stanford.edu/organizations/pages/legal-design-lab/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Legal Design Lab</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">at Stanford Law School’s</span> <a href= "https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-center-on-the-legal-profession/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Center on the Legal Profession</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, she is also a lecturer at the</span> <a href= "https://dschool.stanford.edu/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Stanford d.school</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, a ubiquitous speaker at legal conferences worldwide, and a leading advocate for making the law more accessible.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After graduating from Stanford Law in 2013, she became a fellow at the d.school, where she launched the Program for Legal Tech & Design, experimenting in how design can make legal services more usable, useful and engaging. She also started the blog</span> <a href= "https://www.openlawlab.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Law Lab</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">to document legal innovation and design work. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, she teaches a series of project-based classes, with interdisciplinary student groups tackling legal challenges through user-focused research and design of new legal products and services. She also leads workshops to train legal professionals in the design process, to produce client-focused innovation. During the past year, Hagan has played a leading role in helping Utah launch an</span> <a href= "https://www.lawsitesblog.com/2019/10/lawnext-episode-55-utahs-bold-experiment-to-reimagine-legal-services.html"> <span style="font-weight: 40