Legal Design and Legal Efficiency by Anton Vashkevich and Simplawyer

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Lawyers used to believe that their only task was to answer legal questions. They didn’t think about whether it was comfortable for businesses to work with them or if their advice addressed business tasks.

In recent years, all processes have accelerated, businesses have digitized, and working with data has come to the forefront. The world has changed, but approaches to legal work and legal products have remained the same as they were twenty years ago. Legal processes are slow, documents are complex, unclear, and unsuitable for automation. Legal departments can’t keep up with the business.

But the profession is changing. Progressive legal teams have already begun this transformation: they adapt procedures to business tasks, improve documents, rethink processes within the legal department. Instead of relying on habit, they constantly ask themselves important questions: why do we do things this way, and is it effective?

This book is precisely about such legal transformation and its main drivers: legal design and process optimization. The goal of the book is to show lawyers that with the right approach to processes and documents, their daily work becomes more interesting and diverse, and the quality of services improves.

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From the introduction