AI for Legal Professionals

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AI saves lawyers hours on the work nobody wants to do: document review, e-discovery, contract drafting, legal research. But the ethics rules haven't changed. This course teaches you to use AI safely, from legal research to client confidentiality to ABA Opinion 512.

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01
Start here: what this course is about
Welcome to AI for Legal Professionals
Read first. ~3 minutes.
02
Start here: AI for lawyers, the basics
AI for Law Firms: A Comprehensive Guide - Clio↗
Clio's complete intro. If you're a lawyer or paralegal new to AI, read this first.
03
What can AI do in legal work?
AI Tools for Lawyers: A Practical Guide↗
Bloomberg Law's practical overview of where AI helps lawyers most. Concrete tasks, not hype.
04
Legal research with AI
AI for Legal Research: Tools and Best Practices↗
How to use AI to research case law, statutes, regulations. What to verify and what to trust.
05
Document review and e-discovery workflow
How AI Is Transforming eDiscovery and Legal Document Review↗
Where AI saves the most time in litigation. Clustering, privilege flagging, NLP-based review.
06
AI discovery in practice (Harvey workflow)
How Legal Teams are Using AI for Legal Discovery↗
Harvey.ai (leading legal AI startup) on how legal teams actually deploy AI for discovery.
07
Contract drafting workflow
How Lawyers Are Using AI to Draft Better Contracts Faster↗
ABA's published guide on lawyer workflow for using AI in contract drafting. What to do, what not to do.
08
Paralegal automation: 5 concrete tasks
5 Paralegal Tasks You Can Automate Today With AI↗
Specific workflows you can automate this week: intake, triage, scheduling, file naming, status updates.
09
Full workflow automation for law firms
The Guide to Legal Workflow Automation For Lawyers↗
Harvey's guide to automating end-to-end legal workflows. The maturity curve from one-off prompts to full automation.
10
Human-in-the-loop in legal workflows
Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) for Modern Law Firms↗
How to design legal AI workflows where the lawyer stays in the loop. Quality control without slowing down.
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Lawyer in the loop: contract review patterns
Lawyer in the Loop: Why AI Alone Can't Handle Contract Review↗
Concrete HITL patterns for contract review. AI extracts clauses, lawyers validate risk interpretation.
12
What's next: agentic workflows in legal
Agentic workflows for legal: A smarter way to work with AI↗
Thomson Reuters on the next frontier: agentic AI workflows for legal. Multi-step autonomous agents with lawyer oversight.
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Closing: what to take with you
Closing: Lawyer in the Loop
Wrap-up. ~3 minutes.