Legal Design Summit

Laura Sivula is positively obsessed with disrupting the higher education industry to better suit the challenges of tomorrow. She is the dynamo behind Aalto ITP and also doubles as a Lecturer in project management at Aalto University. Her most recent challenge is to support Aalto’s multidisciplinary and challenge-based programs to gain full potential by strengthening industry involvement.

Jameson Dempsey is a telecommunications and technology attorney based in New York City. He also serves as a director of Legal Hackers, a global community that explores and develops creative solutions to pressing issues at the intersection of law and technology. He believes that legal design is fundamental to improving access to justice, law, and knowledge.

Hanna Pakaslahti works at the Legal Tech Lab towards an inclusive, fair Justice 2.0 where law, technology, service design merge. Hanna wants to make legal systems, thinking and contracts better, more efficient and in-sync with today's demands. A particular interest is Access Services, which are formed to bypass or expedite existing legal practices by using technology and better service design. Visualization of legal processes is in many cases a necessary starting point.

Antti Innanen is the managing partner of Dottir Attorneys and the co-founder of the Legal Design Summit. Antti is a tech lawyer interested in the human aspects of legal business.

Juha-Matti Santala is a technology and community enthusiast with guilty pleasure in education. He has worked as a developer in startups and helped young entrepreneurs get their companies off the ground. He is excited to learn more about legal design and meet fantastic people in Brainfactory.

Dr. Riikka Koulu (LL.D. trained on the bench) is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki and the director of The University of Helsinki Legal Tech Lab. Koulu specializes in digitalization of legal practice and legal automation. She has received her PhD in procedural law at University of Helsinki in 2016.

Cat Moon teaches legal design at Vanderbilt Law Law School and works with law schools across the U.S. to innovate legal education curricula using human-centered design methods. As Co-Founder and Legal Designer at Start Here HQ, she works with firms and legal departments to reimagine client services delivery through the lens of legal design. Cat also serves as Chief Design Officer at Legal Alignment, a legal technology startup, and co-organizes the Music City Legal Hackers.

Risto Hübner is the Chief Legal Officer of Nortal, a multinational strategic change and technology company, as well as the founder of the Estonian chapter of Legal Hackers. Risto is passionate about everything concerning intersection of law and technology.

Sarah van Hecke, legal design consultant at Houthoff Buruma, independently set up Legal Design as a new discipline within Houthoff Buruma. With a background in strategic marketing research, a position at one of the top dutch law firms was not the obvious choice. However, the combination of different perspectives proved very successful. Sarah is a strategic sparring partner for our lawyers. With different areas of expertise, including behavioural psychology, design and law, Sarah works together with the teams on complex matters. Whether in court or outside the courtroom.

Sebastian Nemeth is CEO and lead developer at Portyr, a young Finnish startup tackling transparency, consent management and portability under the GDPR. He has spent years working as a technologist in creative and collaborative environments, ranging from consulting to marketing and innovation management.

Otto Markkanen is co-founder of Portyr, a young Finnish startup tackling transparency, consent management and portability under the GDPR. Otto is trained as a lawyer and has years of experience in working in the field of technology and privacy law, with and for companies ranging from early phase startups to multinational corporations.

Anna is a scholar in legal artificial intelligence and cognitive legal theory and a legal tech startup co-founder. Within legal design she is particularly interested in human-computer interaction and design management. Anna thinks that design is desperately lacking in the legal system as a whole, and good service design can also be a relatively easily achievable key differentiator for legal service providers.

Scott is a serial entrepreneur and start-up advisor. He has held leadership positions at Canada's first internet-only service provider (Interlog), the world's second largest domain registrar (OpenSRS), one of the largest internet security services (MessageLabs) and a consumer wireless service (Ting). He currently advises two legaltech start-ups.

Laura Lerkkanen believes that human-centric design approach is a key in creating successful service concepts and business strategies. She currently works as a service designer at Hellon and considers Legal Design as a change of a mind-set towards empathy, customer centricity and creativity.