Overview

A practical, hands-on course for legal professionals who already know roughly what AI does and now want to use it well. Covers choosing and controlling the right tools, the craft of prompting for real legal work, genuine tasks worked through from prompt to finished output, and how to check what AI gives you before you rely on it. Four units, real worked examples, no hype.

Target Audience

Legal professionals already using AI, or about to. Fee-earners at any level; no technical background required.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion, learners will gain a full and clear understanding of:

• How to choose the right kind of AI tool for a legal task, and what separates a firm-approved tool from a consumer one
• What must never go into an AI tool, and the safe working habits that protect client and matter information
• How to write prompts that get genuinely useful results for drafting, summarising and analysis
• How to work a real legal task through from a first AI draft to a result they would put their name to
• How to check AI output properly, catch fabricated citations, and know when not to use AI at all
• How to supervise someone else's AI-assisted work, and stay accountable for their own

Features and Benefits

• Written for complete beginners: practical, jargon-free and easy to follow.
• Current and fact-checked: researched against up-to-date 2026 sources, including the latest tools and regulation.
• Four short, focused units with gated progression; each unit unlocks once the previous one is passed.
• Light, formative interactions running through every unit (click-to-reveal, quick knowledge checks and estimate-and-reveal sliders), never scored.
• An end-of-unit quiz that finishes with a marking screen showing which answers were right or wrong, with a short explanation for each.
• Easy retakes: a failed quiz drops the learner straight back into freshly shuffled questions, with no need to click through the unit again.
• Optional audio narration on every screen (the learner chooses to listen), plus narrated motion-graphic video introductions, with captions throughout for accessibility.
• Responsive layout, suitable for PC, tablet and mobile.
• SCORM 1.2 conformant (single SCO); reports completion and an averaged score to any compliant LMS.

Course Contents

Unit 1: Setting Up to Work with AI

• The three shapes of AI tools in legal work, and a practical framework for choosing between them
• What separates a firm-approved tool from a consumer one: data handling, contracts and the training-on-your-data setting
• A concrete checklist of what must never go into an AI tool
• Safe working habits: session hygiene, working with IT, and keeping a simple personal log

Unit 2: The Craft of Prompting for Legal Work

• The five elements of a strong legal prompt, with real worked examples
• Three worked comparisons of a weak prompt against a strong one, for drafting, summarising and analysis
• Techniques for iterating and refining an answer that isn't quite right yet
• Common prompting mistakes, and building reusable templates for recurring tasks

Unit 3: Real Legal Tasks, End to End

• A contract review and a research memo, worked through from prompt to finished output
• A modest disclosure triage scenario, a client-facing letter, and a bundle summary
• The actual prompt, what came back, the problem, and the fix, shown for each task
• What the five tasks have in common, and how to build the habit for any new task

Unit 4: Verification, Judgement and Accountability

• A practical three-step method for checking AI output properly
• Catching fabricated citations and quotations, and a real, current cautionary case
• Spotting confident nonsense, and knowing when not to use AI at all
• Supervising a colleague's AI-assisted work, and staying accountable for your own