Jose Torres

Jose Torres is a Partner at Lexia Abogados in Colombia where he leads the legal design, fintech and crypto practice. In his legal design practice, he works at the intersection of design, law, and technology with the purpose of making the law simple and accessible. He advises governments and private companies on how to draft regulations and contracts that are user-centered and easy to understand using legal design. He currently leads the Access to Justice Innovation Lab of the School of the Judiciary of the Dominican Republic (enjlab.org). For the Lab, Jose created the first legal design & tech program for judges, and is working with open innovation initiatives to create new products and services for the justice system with a user-centered mindset. He is a former fellow of Stanford’s Legal Design Lab, and has been an attorney at Facebook, Skadden Arps and the WTO and among others. He regularly teaches at universities in Colombia and Central America on Legal Design, Legal Innovation, Design & Policy and Web3.