# AI for Legal Professionals Canonical URL: ## Overview Built for legal professionals, this hands-on training takes you from your first Claude interaction through full implementation. You'll develop practical experience with prompting, Projects, Artifacts, and tool integrations using real-world legal examples and documents. Throughout the course, you'll work through contracts, briefs, memoranda, case summaries, discovery review, compliance documentation, and client communications, with a steady emphasis on professional responsibility and attorney review of all AI-assisted work. When you're finished, you'll have a personalized Claude system and a completed capstone matter preparation package shaped around your role and organizational priorities. ## What you'll learn - Build structured prompts that deliver accurate, dependable results across writing, analysis, summarization, and research - Bring together Projects, Artifacts, Styles, and Memory to establish a Claude workflow shaped around the way you practice - Dive into advanced prompting techniques like role-based prompting, chain-of-thought reasoning, and the You Ask Me method - Plug Claude into the workplace tools you reach for every day, including Google Drive, Gmail, Excel, and PowerPoint - Put Claude to use across the legal workflows that define your practice, from contract drafting and case law summarization to brief preparation, document review, and compliance documentation - Build a complete legal Claude system and finish with a capstone matter preparation package that's thorough and ready for attorney review ## Curriculum #### Module 1: Getting Started with Claude AI - Explain how Claude works in plain language and identify the model tiers, plans, and interface - Understand the context window, how Claude processes information, and when to start new conversations - Practice your first Claude conversation using a legal-specific prompt - Identify what Claude does well, what it doesn’t, and when human judgment is essential #### Module 2: Prompting Fundamentals - Apply the five-part prompt framework: context, task, format, constraints, and examples - Write effective prompts across five use cases: writing, summarization, analysis, research, and creative problem-solving - Recognize and fix common prompting mistakes that produce vague or unusable output - Practice prompting with legal scenarios: drafting a contract clause, summarizing a court opinion, and writing a client status update #### Module 3: Working with Files & Documents - Upload and analyze images, PDFs, spreadsheets, and documents directly in Claude - Use Claude to extract, compare, and summarize information from uploaded files - Work with legal-specific file types: contracts, court opinions, pleadings, discovery documents, and compliance reports - Complete a hands-on document analysis exercise using provided legal sample files #### Module 4: Projects & Knowledge Bases - Explain how Projects use custom instructions and knowledge bases to organize ongoing work - Write effective Project instructions that encode your role, audience, format preferences, and rules - Upload reference documents and understand how RAG retrieves relevant content - Create a legal Project for a transaction or litigation matter using provided sample contracts, case summaries, and templates #### Module 5: Artifacts, Styles, Memory & Usage Management - Create reusable deliverables with Artifacts and edit them directly or through conversation - Build custom Styles that match your professional communication voice - Configure Memory to retain key context about you and your work across conversations - Apply usage management techniques to extend your plan value #### Module 6: Introduction to Claude Cowork - Explain what Cowork is and how it differs from the claude.ai chat interface - Read, write, and manage files from your desktop environment - Configure guardrails, file permissions, and network settings for safe use - Understand prompt injection risks and how to protect against them #### Module 7: Advanced Prompting & AI Tool Selection - Use role-based prompting, chain-of-thought reasoning, and multi-step workflows - Apply Extended Thinking, web search, and the You Ask Me technique for complex tasks - Compare Claude with ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini to choose the right tool for each task - Practice advanced prompting with legal scenarios: identifying risks in a contract, building a legal research memorandum step by step, and preparing deposition questions from witness statements #### Module 8: Context System, Connectors & Integrations - Build foundational context files and set Global Instructions that apply to every Cowork session - Connect Claude to Slack, Google Drive, Gmail, and other workplace tools - Use Claude natively in Excel and PowerPoint with the Office add-ins - Configure your context system and connections for legal workflows, including document comparison in Excel and case presentations in PowerPoint #### Module 9: AI for Legal — Core Workflows - Use Claude to draft, review, and redline contracts with clause-level analysis and risk identification - Summarize case law, statutes, and regulatory guidance into structured research memoranda - Prepare brief outlines, motion drafts, and argument frameworks from case materials - Extract key terms, dates, obligations, and parties from large document sets for review and analysis - Complete a hands-on lab producing a multi-document legal work product package #### Module 10: Capstone — Build Your Legal Claude System - Audit your legal tasks and identify the highest-value opportunities for Claude assistance - Configure a personalized legal Claude system: Projects, context files, Styles, and connected tools - Run a complete end-to-end matter preparation workflow: contract review summary, research memo, client communication, and matter status brief - Create a Week 1 action plan for applying what you’ve learned to your legal practice ## Pricing **Tuition:** $899