GenAI Prompt Engineering for Legal Practice

The course is geared towards legal professionals, but no specific experience or skills are required.

This is a course on how to write prompts for GenAI (Generative AI) tools in the most effective way for legal work - from contract drafting, to advice notes, to contract reviews, to communications. The examples used in the course relate to legal drafting and research specifically, but the principles are of broader application and could also be used effectively for other types of professional advice.

In the first section of the course we'll cover some foundations in relation to GenAI, prompting techniques, common mistakes and pitfalls, and the broader context of legal and professional obligations. We'll then move on in the rest of the course to work through a framework for prompting that is optimised for legal use-cases. We'll also look at some advanced prompting techniques and work through some practical examples. The templates and examples are available as downloadable materials.

Learning GenAI prompting techniques can open up many opportunities to enhance your legal skills and ways of working, enabling you to work more effectively and carry out certain tasks much more quickly - which can dramatically help with workload management. It can help you to quickly identify effective solutions to complex problems, it can give you pointers if you are stuck on something, it can provide incredibly useful first drafts of contractual clauses, advice notes, letters, marketing copy, and other written materials that you need to produce.

Ultimately, GenAI is a powerful tool that requires skill and practice to use effectively. Professionals who master prompt engineering will have numerous and significant advantages in efficiency, client service, capability, and employability.

The question isn't whether AI will transform legal practice and professional services more widely - this is something that is already happening.

So, this course will help you catch up with everything that is going on and will equip you with the practical tools and knowledge to be able to use GenAI tools confidently and effectively.

Understand why and how GenAI tools are transforming legal practice Understand the essential components of effective prompts Understand critical mistakes to watch out for Learn the "DRAFT" framework for structuring legal prompts Understand some advanced prompting techniques Understand how professional standards and obligations are relevant to the use of GenAI by legal professionals

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