Generative AI for the Legal Profession

🧾 Full Product Description

🧠 What You’ll Learn:

• How Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT, Claude & Gemini work in legal use-cases
• Hands-on techniques for prompt engineering for legal summaries, memos, compliance docs
• AI hallucination risks, data privacy, confidentiality & legal ethics
• Case studies: Using AI in-house for compliance reports, contract markups, legal chatbots
• Frameworks for safe, effective, and compliant use of AI in legal departments

🧩 Module 1: Introduction to Generative AI in Legal Practice

• 1.1 What is Generative AI? (LLMs Explained for Lawyers)
• 1.2 Evolution of AI in LegalTech: From Search to Generation
• 1.3 Why Lawyers Need to Understand Generative AI Today
• Checkpoint Quiz: AI Awareness in Legal Context

🧠 Module 2: Prompt Engineering for Lawyers

• 2.1 Anatomy of an Effective Prompt
• 2.2 Prompting for Contracts, Compliance, and Summarizations
• 2.3 Legal Use-Case Templates (Drafting, Reviewing, Summarizing)
• 2.4 Hands-On: Building Your First Legal Prompt for GPT

🔐 Module 3: Managing Risks in Legal AI Usage

• 3.1 Understanding AI Hallucinations and False Confidence
• 3.2 Data Privacy, Client Confidentiality & Ethics
• 3.3 Regulatory Considerations (EU AI Act, ABA Guidelines, DPDP India)
• 3.4 Drafting an Internal “Use of AI Policy” for Legal Teams

🏛️ Module 4: Real-World Case Studies

• 4.1 How In-house Teams Use Generative AI (Compliance Reports, Policies)
• 4.2 Law Firm Innovation Labs (Internal GPTs & Legal Assistants)
• 4.3 Successes, Failures & Red-Flags: Mini Case Reviews
• Scenario Assignment: Build a Risk-Evaluated AI Legal Workflow

📜 Certification & Portfolio Buildout

• Final Quiz – 20 MCQs (Pass at 75%)
• Prompt Drafting Mini-Submission (Optional for Feedback)
• Digital Certificate + LinkedIn Badge Issuance
• Resume Add-on: “SkillZip Certified Legal Prompt Engineer (Level 1)”