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Description

Legal Design for the Legal Function: Clarify, Visualise and Roll Out

Making contracts and legal department memos genuinely readable for the people who use them

  • 1 day — 7 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Intermediate
  • Up to 6 participants

A clause may be technically accurate and still protect no one if it cannot be understood. Operational teams sign without grasping the terms, work around the procedure or come back to the legal team with every question. The legal department then produces an ever-growing volume of documents whose real effect on behaviour remains limited.

This one-day programme applies legal design to the daily work of an in-house legal function. It starts from the actual readers of each document to rebuild the structure of the information, then introduces the visual tools suited to contracts, memos and internal procedures. Each participant reworks a document from their own scope and has its clarity tested by the group.

Learning objectives

  • Identify the real needs of the readers of a legal document
  • Restructure legal information according to how it will actually be used
  • Rewrite a contractual clause in plain language without altering its legal effect
  • Build a visual representation of a process or an obligation
  • Test a document's clarity with its end users
  • Roll out the approach across the legal department's recurring documents

What makes this programme different

Each participant reworks a document taken from their own scope of responsibility
The clarity of the documents produced is tested by non-lawyers within the group
The approach comes with tools to apply it to an entire library of template contracts

Programme

1Understanding How Legal Documents Are Used

Starting from the reader rather than the text

  • Identifying the real readers and the decisions they make
  • Points where readers get stuck in a contract
  • The gap between the document produced and the document actually used
  • Gathering feedback from operational teams

2Drafting Clarity and Structure

Writing to be understood without losing legal effect

  • Prioritising information and designing the document architecture
  • Rewriting sensitive clauses in plain language
  • Handling definitions and cross-references
  • Layout in the service of readability
  • The limits of simplification

3Visualisation and Roll-Out

Moving from a single document to departmental practice

  • Process diagrams and decision trees
  • Representing obligations and deadlines
  • Short formats for memos and internal procedures
  • Testing clarity with end users
  • Extending the approach to recurring documentation

Who is it for

In-house counsel · legal managers · heads of legal · compliance officers and legal assistants.

Prerequisites

Working in a legal role within a company or organisation.

Dates & locations

24 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.