Lawyers Design School

Legal design hub for lawyers to adopt the skills and mindset of legal design for human-centred lawyering. It’s your easy start for legal design.

Legal and Service Designer

Legal and service design services for developing customer-centered legal space, improving access to justice and creation of positive social impact in the society.

Sis Ventures - Social Impact

I was the founder of Sis Ventures, a social impact enterprise co-creating empowering entrepreneurship for immigrant women. The startup develops holistic entrepreneurship incubator and co-creates the solution together with the women. This was a deep dive into the human-centered design as a tool for sustainable change and the world of impact business.

Contract Mill - Document Automation Platform

I am a co-founder in a legal tech company Contract Mill. Contract Mill develops and offers B2B SaaS document automation platform for lawyers who love their clients. It aims to improve access to justice and scalability of legal work. My areas of responsibility and passion were branding, marketing and communications and human-centered design.

eSopimus - pioneer in Finnish legal tech

I developed and launched a pioneer online service for automated contracts for B2B clients in 2015. Clients were able to create a tailored Shareholders’ Agreement in the service.

Villa Lex - a client-centric law firm

I founded my own law firm to provide client centric legal services with a personality. I developed service concepts and digital services and was an educator and speaker in events. I built a business around outsourced compliance services.

Happy clients:

• "Working with Hannele is very meaningful: her input is uncompromising and of high quality and co-operation is easy-going and effective."

• "I can warmly recommend Hannele if you are looking for a lawyer who does the work professionally and in human-centric way."

Legal Design Thinking IRL

Creator and host of Live series on practical examples of legal design thinking to showcase different projects and people who apply human-centered design to law. All episodes streaming live on Linkedin, YouTube, and Facebook. Past episodes are available on: Youtube

Legal innovation awards 2024

Shortlisted for the Innovation Trailblazer Award in the Legal Innovation Awards 2024 by Legal Week International.

Mentor at Brain Factory 2023

Brain Factory is a 3-day workshop as part of the Legal Design Summit, the biggest legal design event in the world. I mentored one of the teams working on a design challenge. — 9/2023

World Commerce & Contracting European Roadshow in Helsinki

Panelist in the Contract Design Examples from Finland panel — 6/2023

User-centered design & legal design labs. Learning to improve access to justice with technology

Panelist in the event organized by Laboratorio de Justicia Centrada en Las Personas, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez — 1/2023

What skills does a future lawyer need?

Talk at the RoboLawyer seminar of AlmaTalent — 2/2019

Digital Contracting Meetup & Workshop

Talk at event in Budapest, Hungary — 11/2018

Contract Automation - what changes and how to get people involved?

Talk at the Digital Contract Management event of IACCM Finland — 11/2018

Hack the Law! Solving legal problems with technology, together.

Judge in the legal tech hackathon of Legal Tech Lab, University of Helsinki — 10/2018

Between Disruption and Regulation - How Do Lawyers Face Digitalisation

Panelist in the Legal Tech Conference of Legal Tech Lab, University of Helsinki — 6/2017

Legal Design Blog “Something Simple First”

 My legal design blog that gives you inspiration and practical tools to get started with legal design.

What is legal design

My interview on Juristipodi — 9/2022

Muotoilu tekee juridiikasta ymmärrettävää ja saavutettavaa

My interview in Juristiuutiset — 4/2022

Making Legal Design Mainstream by Education with Hannele Korhonen

My interview on Legal Design Podcast

Creating Sis Ventures: the story of a social impact enterprise

My interview in She Creates series of She Breakes the Law

Women In Law, Female Founders: Hannele Korhonen, Contract Mill

My interview in Women in Law - Female Founders series in Artificial Lawyer

Disruption in the Legal Domain Starts with Small Challengers

My piece in Law and Digitalisation: Rethinking Legal Services, a conference publication of Legal Tech Lab, University of Helsinki — 2018

Speed up your work with automated contracts

My interview in Juristikirje of AlmaTalent — 5/2018