3-day Virtual Seminar

AI for Legal Research: Tools and Best Practices

Overview

Learn how to use AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT to enhance legal research workflows, identify relevant authority, and analyze legal issues more efficiently. This session focuses on the technology and workflow side of AI-assisted legal research and is designed to use AI as a research starting point and not replace traditional legal research methods. Through practical demonstrations, participants will learn how to leverage AI for faster insights while validating results, maintaining accuracy, and adhering to professional responsibility standards.

Areas Covered in the Session

• Overview of AI in legal research; benefits, limitations, and appropriate use cases
  
• Compose effective prompts to research legal issues, cases, and statutes
  
• Use AI to generate issue spotters and research starting points
  
• Summarize cases, statutes, and regulations in clear, usable formats
  
• Extract key holdings, rules, and reasoning from judicial opinions
  
• Use AI to identify arguments, counterarguments, and legal frameworks
  
• Compare cases and analyze differences 
  
• Translating complex legal research into plain English for client communication
  
• Verify AI-generated results and mitigating hallucination risks

Who Will Benefit

• Managers
  
• Business professionals
  
• Administrative Personnel
  
• Legal Professionals