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Legal Design Sandbox
Annie Burger-Boshoff
Hey Plain Jane
Information designer
Annie is an information designer and a plain language practitioner at Hey Plain Jane. She is also a postdoctoral fellow at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. In her research she focuses on plain language and how it is experienced in the real world.
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Marco Mendola
Legal Technologist at TLT LLP
Marco is a Legal Technologist at TLT LLP, legal innovator, editor, and podcaster. As a postgraduate in law at the University of Turin (Italy) and Adv. LL.M. graduate in Law & Digital Technologies at Leiden University (Netherlands), he moved to the UK to kick-start his professional career in legal and fintech. Fed up with reviewing dysfunctional contracts, he moved into legal technology, embracing the design thinking methodology.
Marco is an innovation consultant for start-ups and Director of Partnerships & Growth at The Law of Tech, an information service group that aims to bridge the disciplinary divide between policymakers, legal professionals, and technologists by facilitating a common language and fostering stakeholder engagement.
He is Rocco the Frenchie’s human and loves Lego.
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Liezl van Zyl
Hey Plain Jane
Information designer
Plain language practitioner, information designer, crusader for clarity.
I help organisations make their complicated things clear to the people who need to understand them. I’m an information designer and a legal designer. I have yet to meet an illegal designer 🤔
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Peter Hornsby
Edgerton Riley
Director of Colouring In
Peter is a UX consultant and legal designer. He holds a BSc in human factors and a PhD in computer science, where his research looked at software component reuse in what would now be called low / no code platforms.

He has over 20 years’ experience working across a broad range of sectors, in businesses from startups to multinationals, doing:

Since 2020 he has applied this experience to legal design, doing research, testing and design work for companies including in the telecommunications, financial services, service and utilities sectors.
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Gaga Mucko
Sr. employment lawyer at Instapro Group
A Dutch-qualified employment lawyer with 8+ years of experience in complex international settings within the tech industry (both private practice and in-house counsel). I advise on all things employment and am not afraid to venture beyond Dutch law, with employment experience in EMEA, APAC, and the Americas. 

I am passionate about technology and innovation in the legal field. Having always been creative and a visual thinker, my main interest and focus is making the law more accessible and understandable to mere mortals by applying legal design.
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Elizabeth de Stadler
Rehabilitated Lawyer
Funlawyer and legal designer
Creative #funlawyer, contract designer, plain language fanatic, killer of legalese, (un)professional speaker, coach of (un)rehabilitated lawyers, branded #lawfirm pen stealer, knows a little about contract law.
I call myself a rehabilitated lawyer™. I have been a litigator, a corporate lawyer, and a privacy and data protection specialist. Now I am a legal designer, a professional speaker, a plain language fanatic and at parties I tell people I am a cattle inseminator so they don’t tell me about their forking divorces.
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Molly MacGregor
Customer Success Specialist at Juralio
Molly is a product specialist focused on customer success. With a first-class law degree, she utilises her understanding of legal intricacies when working with a range of professionals to design, develop, and implement intuitive software for the legal sector.
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Anna Posthumus Meyjes
Aclara Legal Design
Legal designer – Lawyer
Anna Posthumus Meyjes is a legal designer and founder of Aclara Legal Design. She brings creativity, design and a user-centred approach to law. She worked at several law firms in The Netherlands before fully dedicating herself to improving law with design.
Aclara Legal Design helps improve the usability of legal information: from inaccessible, dense legal documents to engaging, easy-to-use legal content stakeholders will be happy to read.
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