Our mission

we help lawyers and legal professionals do things differently.

  • Pneumatic is a new kind of consultancy designed for a legal world where unprecedented amounts of change and uncertainty are the status quo. We help our legal industry clients embrace innovative new ways of working.

our services

  • qualitative research

    We dig deep to truly understand your clients and your people. Utilizing a diverse toolkit of design thinking methods, we are able to uncover underlying tensions, opportunities, and trends that standard pulse surveys, exit interviews, or client feedback reports almost always miss. Our years of experience conducting world class design research enables us to work quickly and efficiently, which is enormously important in a legal industry where time is literally money.

  • Quantitative Analysis

    We specialize in crafting quick hitting surveys that empower the collection of input from a broad variety of stakeholders. Equally important, we're experts at synthesizing these quantitative results into actionable and human-centered insights about your people and / or your clients. Although every legal culture is unique, our depth of experience working with lawyers and legal professionals enables us to identify the quantitative data points that really matter.

  • Agile Experimentation

    Try it before you buy it. We help our clients de-risk new ways of working with organizational experiments that enable them to try out new processes, tools, structures, roles, or incentives at the right scale and under the right conditions. Our clients are able to obtain the answers to unknown questions about their organization through real-world testing and iteration, as opposed to relying upon assumptions about what they think the future might bring.

  • Design Thinking Education & Training

    Whether you're looking to build out a small innovation team or grow the design thinking capabilities much more broadly across your organization, Pneumatic can help. We specialize in creating and delivering engaging design thinking content for legal professionals, with a focus on capacity building fit for the realities of our new hybrid working world.

  • Innovation Coaching

    Let's be honest. Change and the uncertainty of innovation can be enormously difficult for lawyers and legal professionals. Our Pneumatic team has a depth of experience working closely with innovation "intra-preneurs" to guide them through the highs and lows of making change happen within their organization.

  • Strategic Workshop & Offsite Facilitation

    We use our design thinking and legal industry expertise to create engaging, creative, and strategic experiences for our clients. We're always happy to host your team in our San Francisco HQ, or travel to the location of your choice. Thanks to the power of online collaboration platforms like Miro, we're also adept at designing and facilitating virtual workshops and offsites.

WHo we are

We are powered by IDEO alumni with decades of experience tackling the gnarliest innovation challenges. We co-founded IDEO's Design & Legal Innovation practice in 2015, working with more than two dozen law firms and in-house legal teams on groundbreaking design thinking engagements. Pneumatic was established in 2021 with the goal of focusing our world class innovation and organizational transformation expertise on the legal industry specifically.

Contact us.

contact (at) pneumaticstudio.com

San Francisco, CA, USA