Support real decisions, workflows, and business outcomes, not just faster drafting
AI has dramatically accelerated legal drafting and research.
What it hasn’t replaced is the need for sound judgment, usable contract structures, and legal communication that holds up in real business workflows.
This program trains you to deliver legal information that people can understand, trust, and act on; across contracts, policies, compliance materials, executive presentations, and day-to-day legal communication.
Earn a recognized, competency-based certification in Contract & Legal Design; from foundational theory to advanced applied practice. This certification program helps legal professionals build the capability that becomes more valuable as AI makes drafting ubiquitous.
Get reimbursed by your organization or Contact us to access a 30% team discount for groups of 3+ or bespoke in-house training.
AI has dramatically lowered the cost of producing legal text. But it has not lowered the cost of confusion, misalignment, or poor decision-making inside organizations.
As drafting accelerates, the real constraint in legal work shifts:
from writing text → to exercising legal judgment
from completeness → to usability for real users
from legal correctness → to decision support
Contracts don’t fail because they lack clauses. They fail because obligations aren’t visible, risks aren’t understood, and decisions aren’t supported at the moment they matter.
Legal Design addresses this gap.
It focuses on how legal information is structured, communicated, and embedded into business workflows, so contracts reduce friction instead of creating it.
Well-structured, user-centered documents reduce confusion, rework, and back-and-forth; helping users understand legal information the first time.
Legal design methods reduce friction in negotiation and review, enabling teams to move faster with confidence and control; without the need of legal all the time.
Clear, navigable documents improve retention and reduce errors, leading to stronger compliance and fewer misunderstandings or disputes.
When legal work is easier to use, the business moves more efficiently; positioning legal as a strategic and valued partner; not a deal-blocker.
As AI becomes standard infrastructure, professionals who master clarity, usability, and communication stand out and deliver value others can’t.
Legal design isn’t about making documents look better.
It’s about making legal work work better for the people who rely on it.
The skills you develop in this program apply far beyond contracts.
Participants routinely use the methodology to:
present complex legal risks to executives and boards
design compliance and policy documents people actually follow
improve internal legal guidance and playbooks
structure clearer emails, decks, and cross-functional communications
support decision-making in fast-moving business environments
Legal Design is not about visuals for their own sake. It’s about making legal expertise usable, wherever decisions are made.
This is designed for professionals who work with contracts and legal documents and encounter a common challenge: despite significant time and effort, documents are often misunderstood and underutilized, or worse, stall negotiations and hinder the business.
Bring clarity to the business and speed up every stage of the contract lifecycle.
Stand out with modern, client-centered documents that elevate your practice.
Deliver high-value redesign projects and lead legal innovation with confidence.
Apply your creative problem-solving skills to a field hungry for clarity and better communication.
If you work with contracts or legal information and want your work to be clearer, faster, and more impactful, this program gives you a structured, competency-based pathway to mastery.
You don’t just learn concepts, you gain a complete system for execution, including plain-language techniques aligned with international standards.
Your learning experience includes a comprehensive library of 100+ implementation templates - spanning document layouts, diagrams, workflows, navigation systems, and structured frameworks - available in Word, PowerPoint, and Canva for immediate application within your organization.
The entire program is delivered fully online, with 24/7 access and no expiration, allowing you to learn and apply the methodology at your own pace, wherever you are in the world.
Contract and legal design only creates real value when it becomes a repeatable, team-wide capability. That’s why the program includes an Implementation Toolkit engineered to help you move from individual skill-building to systemic adoption across your legal, operations, or contract team.
A curated library of high-performance AI prompts designed specifically for legal clarity, structural analysis, rewriting, and visual planning.
These prompts help you:
Designed for scale:
Your team can use the same prompts to ensure alignment, quality, and predictable results.
Operational tools that translate legal design from a skillset into a repeatable internal process.
This includes SOPs, checklists, workflow diagrams, and step-by-step playbooks that define how your team should approach document redesign, stakeholder engagement, usability testing, and document iteration.
Designed for consistency:
Team members can follow a clear process, reducing friction, eliminating ambiguity, and ensuring that every new document follows the same high standards of clarity and usability.
With the Implementation Toolkit, you’re not just learning how to redesign documents, you’re equipping your entire team to execute, delegate, and adopt legal design at scale.
Whether you're leading a legal department, managing contracts, supporting operations, or coordinating cross-functional teams, these tools give you everything you need to implement legal design efficiently and consistently. This is how this program becomes more than a course: it becomes a capability your organization can rely on.
This toolkit gives you the assets, frameworks, and ready-to-deploy materials you need so your team can execute consistently, even if they didn't take this course or weren’t trained in contract and legal design themselves.
No subscriptions. No surprise fees.
- Tier 1 -
Get reimbursed by your employer.
Best for: Professionals who want to master the methodology independently.
What you get:
Full Contract & Legal Design curriculum (6 modules)
Templates, playbooks, AI prompt library
Asynchronous expert feedback via the Community Hub
Lifetime access and updates
Certification outcome:
📄 Contract and Legal Design: Methodology & Strategy Certificate
- Tier 2 -
Get reimbursed by your employer.
Best for: Professionals who want accountability, structured practice, and verified applied competence.
Everything in Tier 1, plus:
6 expert-led live practice sessions (120 mins, bi-weekly)
Guided application to real documents
Peer learning and structured feedback
Portfolio-ready evidence of competence
Certification outcome:
🏅Practitioner Level Level.
Includes a Verified Practitioner Badge and reviewed capability.
6 Monthly Payments of US$397 
Pay in Full (US$1,997) to save US$385 on your investment
- Tier 3 -
Get reimbursed by your employer.
Best for: Legal teams and leaders who need a deployment-ready result.
Everything in Tier 2, plus:
6 private 1:1 working sessions (90 mins each)
End-to-end redesign of one strategic legal document
A fully deployment-ready asset suitable for real-world use
Priority access focused on implementation and rollout
Certification outcome:
📘 Advanced Practitioner Level.
Validates the ability to operationalize legal design through a deployment-ready asset.
6 Monthly Payments of US$797
Pay in Full (US$3,997) to save US$785 on your investment
Whether you choose autonomy, guided mastery, or bespoke transformation, you gain a complete methodology and the tools to implement Legal Design with precision, for life.
Your enrollment is protected by our 365-Day Guarantee. Apply the methodology in your real work for a full year, risk-free. If you complete the required steps for your tier and do not feel confident applying the skills in practice, you’re eligible for a full refund, no questions asked. Each tier includes its own tailored guarantee, aligned to the level of support you choose.
Read the Guarantee Policy →To keep the program accessible, we provide flexible payment plans, including the option to spread tuition over 6 months. We also maintain an Access for All Program designed to remove financial barriers and support an inclusive, globally diverse cohort.
Read the Access for All Policy →To streamline internal approval, we provide a reimbursement toolkit featuring a succinct executive pitch and a ready-to-send template letter tailored for senior leadership.
Access the Reimbursement Toolkit →Contact us to access a 30% team discount for groups of 3+ or a bespoke training experience.
This certification validates your capacity to think like a legal designer and and define sound legal design strategies to execute.
Validates applied competence through expert-reviewed work and includes a Verified Practitioner Badge and Portfolio-ready evidence of capability, in addition to your printable certificate of achievement.
Validates your ability to operationalize legal design through expert-guided redesign of a strategic document ready for real-world use.
This course delivers real results and the feedback proves it works!
Discover how the program helped advance their careers and elevate their everyday legal work.
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Most organizations underestimate the operational drag caused by unclear legal information; particularly in contracts: slower negotiations, repeated explanations, avoidable review cycles, delayed decisions, and stalled revenue.
Research shows that applying contract and legal design methods can deliver measurable gains:
On average, 50% reduction in negotiation time → faster deal velocity and accelerated revenue
30% decrease in review time on average → fewer bottlenecks and leaner legal workflows
Greater self-sufficiency for business teams → legal shifts from “gatekeeper” to strategic enabler
Use the calculator below to quantify the impact for your organization.
Adjust a few inputs to estimate the time and cost savings you could unlock immediately
Quantify the ROI of Legal Design and discover how much time and money you could save by making your contracts clearer and more efficient.
Number of contracts reviewed per month
Total hours spent reviewing and negotiating one contract
Average time from initial draft to signature
Annual value or strategic importance per contract
Blended rate for legal time (internal + external)
Set your target efficiency gains with Legal Design implementation
| Metric | Before | After | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Review Time per Contract | - | - | - |
| Negotiation Time | - | - | - |
| Monthly Contract Cost | - | - | - |
| Annual Legal Cost | - | - | - |
| Lost Revenue per Week of Delay | - | - | - |
Legal Design isn't just about aesthetics—it's about measurable business impact. Let's discuss how to implement these efficiency gains in your organization.
The calculator captures what’s easiest to measure: time, cost, and efficiency in contract negotiation and review.
But in practice, the impact of legal design extends far beyond contracts.
The same methodology is used when legal teams need to:
explain risk clearly to executives, boards, or non-legal stakeholders
design compliance and policy materials people actually follow
support fast, high-stakes decisions where clarity matters more than volume
create persuasive, business-ready presentations under time pressure
communicate legal guidance that enables action, not hesitation
In all of these moments, legal teams face the same tension:
Contract & Legal Design resolves that tension.
It allows legal teams to deliver protection and momentum, making legal expertise usable at the moment decisions are made.
That’s why the ROI compounds across documents, teams, and years; not just in negotiation cycles.
Legal and contract professionals typically consider three paths when trying to improve their documents. Each has merit — but only one provides a proven, end-to-end, repeatable system used successfully in 70+ countries.
(Books, articles, webinars, online scattered resources)
A DIY approach can build awareness, but it rarely develops capability.
You gain theory without application, no structured feedback, and no way to validate whether your redesigns meet legal UX benchmarks.
Risk: High. Likelihood of misapplication, blind spots, and costly rework.
Impact: Slow. Fragmented. Non-scalable.
This program delivers what the alternatives do not:
A repeatable methodology that you can use across all contracts and legal documents
A scalable skillset adopted daily by lawyers, contract managers, and legal ops professionals worldwide
A proven system taught to professionals in 70+ countries, powering award-winning projects and real operational results
A one-time investment that continues to generate returns across documents, teams, and years
A full Implementation Toolkit (templates, prompts, SOPs, workflows) your entire team can use - designers, lawyers, operations, support teams
This isn’t a design course. It’s a capability-building infrastructure for legal and contract transformation.
You get 365 days to use the course, apply the methodology, and measure your results. If you engage with the material and still don’t feel confident applying the skills, you can request a full refund.
No other option offers this level of certainty. No agency. No design school. No DIY path.
Lifetime access
All future updates
New templates and tools
Latest research insights
At no additional cost
Your investment is fully protected. Your results are guaranteed.
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Professionals from 70+ countries have leveraged these capabilities to accelerate their careers, elevate their teams, launch consultancies, and even win industry awards using the system you will learn.
You have 12 full months to work through the methodology, apply the techniques, and evaluate the impact in your own environment. If you engage with the program and do not feel confident applying the skills, you receive a 100% refund.
Tessa Manuello is a leading voice in legal design, contract innovation, and clarity-focused transformation. As the founder of Legal Creatives, she has built one of the world’s most recognized online platforms dedicated to elevating legal teams through design-driven, user-centered methodologies.
With more than a decade of experience, she has advised law firms, corporate legal departments, and public institutions on improving contract usability, accelerating negotiations, and modernizing legal communication at scale. Her work consistently helps legal professionals deliver clearer documents, faster decisions, and measurable business impact.
Before founding Legal Creatives, Tessa held roles in international arbitration at the ICC International Court of Arbitration—the world’s leading arbitral institution—and contributed to academia at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada.
She holds a Master’s in International Business Law from Sorbonne University and Sciences Po Paris, and an LL.M. in Dispute Prevention and Resolution from the University of Sherbrooke.
Across 70+ countries, legal professionals consistently highlight the clarity, rigor, and practical transformation they achieve through her guidance, testament to the real-world impact of her approach
This program gives you a complete, end-to-end system to redesign contracts, elevate legal communication, and deliver business-ready outcomes with confidence.
Whether your goal is to modernize documents in-house, accelerate deal cycles, or build a legal design capability from the ground up, this is the most efficient way to develop the skills and the toolkit to do it; once, and for the long term.
With a one-time investment, you gain lifelong access to the frameworks, templates, tools, and techniques that continue to compound in value as your practice grows.
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