Leftfoot - Legal Business Development

Using Design Thinking with Dan Yi Daniel Yi is Senior Counsel for Innovation, at the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division.  His work helps attorneys explore new approaches to persistent operational and mission-delivery challenges using innovation and creativity.   He also leads an incubator program called Concept Lab where legal professionals use design thinking and lean methodologies to make improvements. https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielhyi/ (Dan Yi on LinkedIn)  Dan has an intense curiosity and fascination for learning how smart people see and engage with the world. Even with 11K attorneys, resource allocation at the DOJ requires on going effort. Trial prep is stressful; there are lots of tasks, lots of terms, and time is limited.   Applying design thinking a Kanban board was used to outline workflows, and monitor progress including classic daily scrums. A lawyer’s predisposition to identify risk and a cultural reaction to the risk of change multiplies the traditional product adoption curve.