Workshop Curriculum

AI literacy for legal
professionals.
Built for practitioners,
not technologists.

5 modules. 6 hours. Everything your team needs to evaluate, adopt, and operationalize AI — without the jargon.

6 hours total

Half-day format. No filler. Every minute earns its place.

Hands-on exercises

Live prompting, workflow mapping, and action planning — not just slides.

Legal-specific

Every example, exercise, and framework is built for legal workflows.

At a glance

5 modules designed to build on each other.

From foundations to action plan. Each module ends with a concrete takeaway your team keeps.

Curriculum detail

What each module covers.

Module 01

AI Fundamentals

90 min

What AI actually is — and isn’t — for legal work.

  • How large language models work (no math, real intuition)
  • What “hallucination” actually means and when it matters
  • Supervised vs. generative AI in legal tools you already use
  • Where AI is reliable today vs. where it’s not
  • Ethical and confidentiality guardrails for client work
Outcome

Walk away with a mental model for evaluating any AI claim from a vendor or colleague.

Module 02

Prompting That Works

90 min

From vague questions to reliable, repeatable outputs.

  • Anatomy of a good prompt: role, context, constraint, format
  • Prompt patterns for legal research, drafting, and summarization
  • Chain-of-thought prompting for complex legal reasoning
  • Building a reusable prompt library for your practice area
  • Live exercise: draft and refine prompts for real tasks
Outcome

Leave with 5+ tested prompts you can use in your practice tomorrow.

Module 03

AI for Your Workflow

90 min

Mapping AI to the work you actually do every day.

  • Intake triage: scoring and routing leads faster
  • Document review and summarization at scale
  • Demand package drafting with human-quality output
  • Client communication templates that don’t sound robotic
  • Identifying your firm’s three highest-leverage AI opportunities
Outcome

A prioritized list of workflows where AI saves your firm real time this quarter.

Module 04

Agents and Automation

60 min

What’s coming next — and what’s hype.

  • AI agents vs. chatbots: what’s actually different
  • Automation patterns: triggers, chains, and human-in-the-loop
  • Real examples of agent workflows in legal operations
  • Risk assessment: what to automate and what to keep manual
  • Evaluating vendor “agent” claims with a clear framework
Outcome

A realistic understanding of where automation is headed and how to prepare.

Module 05

Action Plan

30 min

Leave with a concrete plan, not just inspiration.

  • Personal AI adoption roadmap (30/60/90 days)
  • Quick wins you can implement this week
  • Team rollout strategy and change management basics
  • Measurement: how to know if AI is actually helping
  • Resources and next steps for continued learning
Outcome

A written 90-day action plan tailored to your role and firm size.

Audience

Who this workshop is for.

Ideal participants
✓Paralegals and legal assistants exploring AI tools
✓Associates and attorneys evaluating AI for their practice
✓Firm administrators and ops managers planning adoption
✓Managing partners who need to make informed AI decisions
✓Legal teams with zero prior AI experience
Not designed for
—Software engineers building AI products
—Data scientists or ML researchers
—Teams looking for vendor-specific tool training
Next step

Bring this workshop to your firm.

Available as a half-day on-site session or virtual delivery. Custom modules available for firms with specific workflow needs.

No software sales. No vendor commissions. Just structured AI education for legal teams.