About The Legal Innovation Center
The Legal Innovation Center designs and tests new solutions and business models for legal education and the delivery of legal services.
The Center provides the platform and space to:
1. Experiment with new business models to transform how legal services are delivered both in the USA and globally.
2. Test new business models that will lead the design of future of legal education and the legal profession.
The Center does not rely on the past as a reference point to tweak the old business models. It create a wholly new vision and experiments until that vision emerges. It will be the first legal innovation center dedicated to test, launch and incubate start-ups in the legal industry.
The Process
The Legal Innovation Center generates its own ideas and projects. It is also available to research and test new business models and solutions for legal service providers, company legal departments and start-ups in the legal industry.
The Center applies the following process and models to design innovation in the legal industry and create new business models:
1. Design Thinking - design thinking is the ability to combine empathy for the context of a problem, creativity in the generation of insights and solutions, and rationality to analyze and fit solutions to the context.
2. Business Model Innovation - refers to the creation, or reinvention, of a business itself. Whereas innovation is more typically seen in the form of a new product or service offering, a business model innovation results in an entirely different type of company with entirely new ways to create, deliver, and capture value.
3. Business Model Generator – the most widely used language and process for describing, visualizing, assessing and changing business models.
4. The Lean Start-Up methodology as taught by Steven Blank at Stanford and Berkeley B-schools, and as originally developed by Eric Ries.
The Form
The Center brings together expertise across disciplines to experiment in a structured setting using design thinking and other process tools mentioned above.
The Center hosts the following types of activities:
1. Law school’s students and international guest students on a semester or annual basis.
2. Experts and academic fellows working virtually, and in person, as guests to Center, or on a Center project for a client.
3. Entrepreneurs, lawyers and professors who want to learn the design thinking and business innovation process, and can commit to the Legal Innovation Center process.
4. Workshops, webinars and conferences on the process.
The Team
The Legal Innovation Center’s vision requires a commitment to develop a talented team of creative people and strong doers all with a broad palette of talents and from a variety of disciplines.
The Center is lead by Georgetown University Law Center Alum, Jorge Colón, an entrepreneur in the global legal industry, and the Founder of The Online Bar, and LexPreneur - an accelerated business design process to help lawyers test innovative business models for law practices or businesses in the legal industry.
The Center is in the process of selecting its Board of Advisors from the USA, Canada, Spain and the UK. This Board will be responsible for designing the curriculum and testing it during its first year, and making adjustments in the 2nd year.
Accepting host proposals
The Center’s interactive process requires the use of physical space, which will continuously be internally adapted to the demands of its projects.
We are currently accepting proposals from law schools and business schools in the DC metro area to become the academic host for the Center. We are also accepting proposals from legal and business consulting organizations who may benefit from this relationship. If your organization is interested in becoming the Center’s DC host, please use the form below to contact us.
The Legal Innovation Center designs and tests new solutions and business models for legal education and the delivery of legal services.
The Center provides the platform and space to:
1. Experiment with new business models to transform how legal services are delivered both in the USA and globally.
2. Test new business models that will lead the design of future of legal education and the legal profession.
The Center does not rely on the past as a reference point to tweak the old business models. It create a wholly new vision and experiments until that vision emerges. It will be the first legal innovation center dedicated to test, launch and incubate start-ups in the legal industry.
The Process
The Legal Innovation Center generates its own ideas and projects. It is also available to research and test new business models and solutions for legal service providers, company legal departments and start-ups in the legal industry.
The Center applies the following process and models to design innovation in the legal industry and create new business models:
1. Design Thinking - design thinking is the ability to combine empathy for the context of a problem, creativity in the generation of insights and solutions, and rationality to analyze and fit solutions to the context.
2. Business Model Innovation - refers to the creation, or reinvention, of a business itself. Whereas innovation is more typically seen in the form of a new product or service offering, a business model innovation results in an entirely different type of company with entirely new ways to create, deliver, and capture value.
3. Business Model Generator – the most widely used language and process for describing, visualizing, assessing and changing business models.
4. The Lean Start-Up methodology as taught by Steven Blank at Stanford and Berkeley B-schools, and as originally developed by Eric Ries.
The Form
The Center brings together expertise across disciplines to experiment in a structured setting using design thinking and other process tools mentioned above.
The Center hosts the following types of activities:
1. Law school’s students and international guest students on a semester or annual basis.
2. Experts and academic fellows working virtually, and in person, as guests to Center, or on a Center project for a client.
3. Entrepreneurs, lawyers and professors who want to learn the design thinking and business innovation process, and can commit to the Legal Innovation Center process.
4. Workshops, webinars and conferences on the process.
The Team
The Legal Innovation Center’s vision requires a commitment to develop a talented team of creative people and strong doers all with a broad palette of talents and from a variety of disciplines.
The Center is lead by Georgetown University Law Center Alum, Jorge Colón, an entrepreneur in the global legal industry, and the Founder of The Online Bar, and LexPreneur - an accelerated business design process to help lawyers test innovative business models for law practices or businesses in the legal industry.
The Center is in the process of selecting its Board of Advisors from the USA, Canada, Spain and the UK. This Board will be responsible for designing the curriculum and testing it during its first year, and making adjustments in the 2nd year.
Accepting host proposals
The Center’s interactive process requires the use of physical space, which will continuously be internally adapted to the demands of its projects.
We are currently accepting proposals from law schools and business schools in the DC metro area to become the academic host for the Center. We are also accepting proposals from legal and business consulting organizations who may benefit from this relationship. If your organization is interested in becoming the Center’s DC host, please use the form below to contact us.