Legal Innovation Mechanisms: From the Designer to the Consumer

Abstract

The expression “legal innovation” has emerged recently to qualify certain legal work or certain technologies used in relation to law or legal is-sues. Why now as Law is a living material continuously evolving and as Lawyers have constantly created legal rules, solutions and tools? Are we facing a linguistic denial that needs to be overcome to help Lawyers to be actors of the current legal revolution? Indeed, Lawyers must do their job more quickly and in a more effective manner but in a more complex context: internationalization, globalization, digitalization, etc. The solution for Lawyers is to conceive and develop new systems, processes and tools to perform some of their tasks. How can Lawyers innovate? How can legal teams be organized and motivated to innovate and industrialize some of their production? What are the mechanisms to be followed? What are the accelerants and obstacles to legal innovation? A new legal innovation methodology is proposed to conduct research and development programs from the designer to the consumer, associated to a new tool the LTRL (Legal Technology Readiness Level) as a help to have a strategic view of the program steps.