Purpose of the training
Who is it recommended for?
This certificate is applicable in both Hungarian and international legal contexts. It is useful for legal professionals working in private practice, corporate legal departments, public administration, and NGOs. The course benefits those engaged in legal service delivery, innovation, project development, or client engagement. Participants gain practical skills in legal design, problem-framing, agile collaboration, and user-centered thinking. These competencies can be directly applied to legal process improvement, interdisciplinary teamwork, and strategic innovation—both locally and in cross-border settings. It also supports early-career lawyers seeking to stand out in a competitive, rapidly evolving legal market.
Why is it worth completing?
The learning outcomes address labour market needs by equipping legal professionals with innovation literacy, service orientation, and project leadership skills—areas of increasing relevance in both public and private legal work. Socially, they support the development of more accessible, user-centered legal services. Personally, participants grow as reflective practitioners with adaptable, forward-thinking mindsets that are vital in changing legal environments.
What will I learn?
Students who finish this course will be able to:
- Identify legal service delivery problems using structured user research methods.
- Formulate creative legal service concepts using ideation techniques.
- Develop low-fidelity prototypes to model and test legal solutions.
- Uses agile project management techniques to lead legal innovation with strategic alignment to organizational goals.
- Apply client-centred thinking to improve legal communication and service value.
- Present innovation proposals in a professional, reflective manner.
What will I do during the training?
The course applies challenge-based and experiential learning tailored to the legal profession. Participants work individually and in groups to solve real-life problems in legal service delivery and innovation. Using design thinking and agile tools, they prototype legal solutions and reflect critically on their effectiveness. The teaching is student-centered and promotes transversal skills essential in modern legal work—such as collaboration, legal communication, and adaptive thinking. The course is transdisciplinary, integrating law with service design, strategy, and project management. Hybrid teaching enables peer exchange and authentic learning scenarios.
How will completion of the training be assessed?
The assessment includes participation in at least 80% of sessions, the completion of all assignments and a minimum score of 60% based on the cumulative weighted rubric.
Admission requirements
Law-degree.
Training duration, form, day of training
14 teaching hours, Friday-Saturday, in person.
Dates: 27–28 November 2026
Application deadline: 9 November 2026
Instructor
Dr. Eszter Bodnár
Cost
167,000 HUF
For former ELTE students: 150,000 HUF