Bridging Lawyer-Client Communication with Intuitive Digital Interfaces
Redesigning Legal Workflows for Speed and Clarity
Empowering lawyers with streamlined tools to manage briefs, documents, and collaboration
Client
Tabulerasa Inc.
DELIVERABLES
Lawyer & Client Dashboards & Marketplace
Year
2022
Role
Product Designer
🔍 Research & Insights
The legal tech space is notoriously complex, and the early version of Tabulerasa showed signs of growing pains. Lawyers struggled with:
Slow and repetitive brief creation workflows
Scattered communication between teams and clients
Limited visibility into ongoing document status
Inflexible systems that didn’t adapt to different practice areas
🧱 Design Strategy
The redesign centered on a goal: make legal work faster, more collaborative, and easier to manage from a central platform.
We focused on three main goals:
Design a powerful brief builder that could adapt to different legal use cases
Centralize lawyer-client collaboration through structured, guided forms and messaging
Reimagine document management and team visibility across legal teams
The product needed to work for solo lawyers and large legal teams alike, so flexibility and clarity were top priorities.
Flow Mapping
🎨 Design & Prototyping
Working with the product and engineering teams, we redesigned:
The Brief Builder: a modular system allowing lawyers to create, duplicate, and send out forms to clients.
The Messaging & Collaboration Space: a shared timeline between lawyers and clients to exchange updates and documents.
Team & Workspace Management: tools to organize matters, assign team members, and view progress at a glance.
I led the UX/UI design in Figma, designing for desktop-first use cases given the nature of legal work. We mapped out complete user flows and created high-fidelity prototypes to simulate every interaction from client onboarding to final document handoff.
Each component was carefully designed with edge cases and scalability in mind forms with many fields, conditional logic, status changes, and revision tracking.
🧪 Testing & Iterations
We conducted user tests with internal teams and lawyers from pilot firms. Feedback loops were continuous, allowing us to rapidly iterate.
We iterated based on direct testing and stakeholder sessions , ensuring both legal and technical needs were addressed.
Desktop Feed - Client (User Type)
🚀 Outcome
Tabulerasa is built to empower legal teams to focus less on repetitive admin and more on high-value legal work while giving clients a clearer, more professional experience.
Reflection
This project expanded how I think about designing for high-stakes, high-complexity tools. It taught me to:
Design systems that scale across diverse use cases
Balance control and flexibility in tools for professionals
Prioritize clarity and iteration when building for specialized domains like legal tech
I walked away with a deeper appreciation for legal workflows and how good design can meaningfully reduce friction in even the most traditional industries.
Feed Q&A - Client (User Type)
Desktop Feed - Lawyer (User Type)
Feed Exploration - Dark