Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers : From Fundamentals to Advanced Prompting Techniques

Generative Artificial Intelligence for Legal Work

• The Origins and Evolution of AI in Law
  • Milestones: from ELIZA to ChatGPT
  • Why it matters

• Types of AI Explained
  • Discriminative, extractive, generative (with legal examples)

• How Machines Think: Perceptrons to Deep Learning
  • Neural networks, key concepts
  • Example: “See like a machine”

• How AI Learns: The Mechanisms Behind the Magic
  • Supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning; real-world legal applications

• Transformers & LLMs: Why This Time is Different
  • Understanding transformer architecture, practical impact on legal work

• What Machines Do Well—and Their Limitations
  • Capabilities (drafting, summarization, reasoning, translation, generalization)
  • Limitations (lack of true understanding, hallucinations, context window, “trained to please,” sandbagging, sensitivity to prompts, etc.)

 

Prompting Techniques : Extracting Value from the Machine

• Introduction to Prompting in Legal Practice
  • What is prompting? Why it matters for lawyers

• Prompting Fundamentals
  • Clarity, context, structure, role definition
  • Adapting outputs to audience and purpose (legal memos, email, reports)

• Intermediate Prompting Techniques
  • Expansion, few-shot, templates, legal analytical frameworks (IRAC, etc.)

• Advanced Prompting for Legal Reasoning
  • Role-based prompting, argument & counterargument, risk/scenario simulations
  • Critical thinking and validation (fact-checking, cross-referencing, autoverification)

• Human Oversight: The Irreplaceable Role of the Lawyer
  • Ensuring quality, ethical guardrails, supervision flows

• Practical Group Exercises
  • Hands-on: drafting, review, validation, scenario simulation

• Future Perspective
  • Technological Evolution
  • Impact in Legal Work

This course is designed for in-person delivery only, to ensure maximum interaction, hands-on engagement, and real-time collaboration.

Redcliffe's AI for Lawyers course trainer is a partner at Cuatrecasas, one of Europe’s leading law firms, and an expert in AI adoption for legal work. With nearly 25 years of experience across Europe, Asia, and the US, he regularly trains lawyers at top firms, in-house teams, and boards of directors on leveraging generative AI for legal work, law firms strategy on AI and implementation of AI in corporates.

He lectures on AI and law at Wharton Business School, ESADE, UPF, and other top institutions, and advises international clients on integrating AI into high-stakes legal practice. The trainer is recognized for combining real-world, high-level legal expertise with advanced, practical AI training—grounded in live, hands-on exercises and the realities of legal work.

• Provide lawyers (at law firms and in-house) with a robust understanding of generative AI and its applications in legal work.
• Equip participants to critically evaluate, select, and drive AI adoption and innovation in legal teams.
• Demonstrate premium prompting techniques for extracting value from AI tools in complex legal decision-making.
• Develop hands-on expertise in prompt engineering for use cases in advisory, contracts, compliance, and litigation oversight.

• Based on real-life, high-level in-house training for major corporates and top law firms.
• Direct exercises using the latest AI legal tools—participants bring real-life issues for analysis.
• Strong emphasis on critical thinking and human supervision, not hype or generic vendor demos.
• Taught by a law firm partner and AI consultant with significant multicultural and international experience

• General Counsel, Chief Legal Officers, Legal Operations Leaders
• Partners and associates at top law firms
• Senior in-house lawyers responsible for innovation or digital transformation

A hands-on, high-impact session that positions your legal team at the forefront of AI adoption—demystifying technology, sharpening strategic thinking, and providing actionable tools for the modern legal environment.
Rather than focusing on any one AI product, this course teaches lawyers the core concepts and prompting techniques needed to work effectively with any current or future generative AI tool.