Navigating AI in Legal Writing: Best Practices and Pitfalls

This course offers foundational skills about how to leverage generative AI in legal writing. From prompting tricks to the basics of GPT tech, attendees leave with actionable skills that can be used to elevate legal practices. Beginning with the basics of how generative AI works, attendees will learn about large language models, transformers, and generation from input to response. Attendees of this program will gain concrete techniques for working with GPT and similar generative AI tools, including tactics for prompt engineering. Attendees will also learn about the strengths and weaknesses of AI both now and in the future, as well as practical and ethical pitfalls surrounding AI.

This course is ideal for all attorneys and legal professionals who regularly write in their practice and want to learn more about AI.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn foundational concepts about how transformer technology works to generate text for legal tasks
• Explore prompt engineering techniques for using generative AI to draft and improve legal writing
• Develop strategies for deciding when and how to use generative AI tools in legal practice