Free living map
Legal Engineering: A Living Map
Legal engineering applies process and technology thinking to legal work. It starts by seeing how work is organised (matters, tasks, documents and decisions), then finding the work worth improving by volume, pain and risk. Improvement follows a ladder: eliminate, simplify, standardise and only then automate. Success depends on working with the lawyers who will use the result, choosing tools well and governing them responsibly, and measuring the value against a baseline. Press Play, click an idea or trace a case. A simplified teaching map.
Hover over an idea to light up what it connects to, click it for its definition, minimum requirements, an example and the usual trap, press Play to watch the map build step by step, or trace a short case through it.
Simplified teaching map, in general terms. Check the law where you work. On a small screen, scroll the map sideways.
Learn it properly
The full lecture, exercises and quiz behind this map are in Legal Engineering Foundations: Module 1, and that module is free to read.
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