Baru Obračajová

I design futures for law, learning, and complex systems.

I lead workshops, teach, consult on products and services, and help organizations navigate technological and cultural change.

Over the past decade, I have led innovation and technology projects in Big Law and Magic Circle firms, including building the project management lab at Dentons Europe and training more than 2,000 legal professionals.

My practice combines legal design, learning design, futures studies, systems thinking, and emerging technologies. I work hands-on through facilitation, research, and rapid prototyping.

I enjoy collaborating with legal departments, law firms, startups, universities, and mission-driven organizations that see legal not merely as compliance, but as infrastructure for trust, participation, and meaningful user experience.

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Services

With my clients, I map out the situation and decide on a custom approach, which can include:

  • Legal futures and strategy – facilitating shared, future-proof vision instead of just purchasing tools
  • Productivisation of legal services – maturity mapping and intentional service design of end-to-end legal services for both humans and AI
  • Legal Tech Product Design – aligning features and architecture with true needs and specifics of legal users
  • Design of Legal Documents – modular contracts or streamlined legal documentation that people use, follow, and engage with – with faster turnaround times, data clarity, and easy maintenance
  • Process transformation and change management – helping prepare strategy, identify most impactful interventions, and how to sell innovation to the teams internally
  • Mentoring – best practices, frameworks, tooling, and coaching of legal operations professionals undertaking change internally
  • Workshops, upskilling and talks in legal technology, innovation, and design

Workshops

I run workshops and sprints on Legal Futures, Legal Design, AI Upskilling for Lawyers, and Algorithmic Thinking

All my teaching is hands-on, prototype driven, and using real tools. I often use custom tools to get the message across.

  • Modern Lawyers: Innovation, Tech, and Design in legal practice at Charles University (11 weeks course)
  • Future of Legal Education in the Age of AI at Charles University (2 hours)
  • Czech Corporate Lawyers Assocatiation (UPP) Legal Skills for the Future (2 hours)
  • TWENTY MINUTE FUTURES at Masaryk University (20 minutes)
  • Algorithmic Thinking for Lawyers with Scratch at Charles University (90 minutes)
  • Confidential work on legal design, service delivery, and AI
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Conferences and Talks

I speak about Future of Law, Legal Practice, and Education, Legal Futures, Legal Design, AI Transformation, Future of Legal Skills

I gave keynotes or spoke at panels at key industry conferences, including:

  • Legal Geek Europe 2024
  • Beacon Collective 2025
  • Legal Design Summit 2025
  • FutureLaw 2025
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Selected Experience

Head of Project Management, Europe Corporate / M&A Practice Group, Dentons, where I owned and designed end-to-end M&A as a service

Learning Designer and Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Charles University, I designed and have been teaching a course Modern Lawyers: Innovation, Tech and Design in practice

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Education

Master of Laws cum laude, Law and Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law, Charles University

Legal Technology and Operations, Summer Programme, Bucerius Law School

Image credits: Zlín Design Week, FutureLaw