AI for lawyers and contracts

About this course

This course is about using AI in contract work without falling for the model's hallucinations. It solves a lawyer's routine problem: hours go into first-pass contract review, comparing redlines, and chasing legal references — while any mistake the model makes can be expensive.

The training runs on one real contract: 'Contract Review' covers reading a document fast, keeping a risk checklist, and spotting dangerous clauses; 'Preparing Documents' covers drafting from a template and negotiating terms; 'Working with Information' covers researching a question without invented answers and verifying a legal reference step by step. The final project is a policy for your team's AI use in contract work.

The course is for in-house and consulting lawyers who work with contracts, and for non-lawyers who review agreements as part of their job. You'll need a real contract to practice on. The course doesn't replace legal advice: any reference the model gives to a law or case is treated as invented until checked against the original source.

What you'll learn

• Do a fast first-pass review of a contract
• Keep a risk checklist for a contract
• Spot dangerous clauses and propose safer wording
• Compare redlines and track changes across versions
• Draft a contract from a template
• Verify a model's legal reference against the original source
• Summarize a long document without losing its terms
• Build a contract process with human checkpoints

What you'll end up with

• A contract risk checklist and a list of dangerous clauses with safer wording
• A deal-adapted contract draft built from your own template
• An internal memo from a researched legal question
• An AI-use policy for your team's contract work

This course isn't for you if you're looking for a lawyer replacement or litigation strategy — it teaches you to check and speed up routine work, while decisions and liability stay with a qualified professional.