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.