The Lawyer and AI
Replace the hype framing with the one that explains both the wins and the failures. Install the production-vs-judgment stance, the thinking-partner discipline, the working model of AI capability, and the verification habit that the rest of the course builds on. Ships eight working assets including the Production-and-Judgment Frame, the Duty-and-Trust Stance, the Working Model for Lawyers, and the Lawyer Verification Discipline.
Understand why AI is a genuine multiplier for legal work, across research, drafting, review, and analysis
Use AI as a genuine thinking partner for legal work, not an answer machine — to sharpen your analysis rather than replace your judgment
Build an accurate working model of what AI is actually good and bad at, so you know when to lean on it and when to be skeptical
Turn the working model into an operational habit: calibrate how much to verify by the stakes and the verifiability of each use
Legal Research
The research discipline for AI-assisted legal practice — finding authority, synthesizing doctrine, and verifying every citation before reliance. The absolute rule on authority and the techniques that make AI a genuine research accelerator without becoming a hallucination risk.
Use AI to accelerate the orienting, issue-spotting, and lead-generating parts of legal research
Make the verification of legal authority a practiced craft: confirm existence, read the holding, check it is good law, confirm the jurisdiction
Synthesize verified authority into a sound answer about what the law actually requires
Establish research soundness as the foundation everything downstream rests on, and a matter of competence
Drafting
AI-assisted drafting that stays in your voice and serves your client's interests. The drafting discipline, the review practice that catches what AI misses, and the judgment that keeps the work yours.
Capture the large drafting leverage AI offers across contracts, briefs, memos, and correspondence
Recognize that a draft can read perfectly and be substantively wrong — fluency is not correctness
Recognize omission as AI's most dangerous drafting error — what isn't there leaves no visible trace
Establish precision and completeness as the standard a document must meet, and the lawyer's craft
Document Review & Due Diligence
The document review and due diligence discipline — using AI to accelerate the production while keeping the judgment, the issue-spotting, and the professional responsibility yours.
Capture AI's large leverage on the volume problem in document review, due diligence, and discovery
Recognize that significance — what actually matters in a review — is judgment that depends on understanding the matter
Guard against false confidence in AI's coverage — that it found everything that matters
Establish completeness and accuracy as the standard a review must meet, and the lawyer's responsibility
Legal Analysis & Client Counsel
The analytical discipline for legal work: AI-assisted analysis that keeps the legal judgment, the risk assessment, and the client communication yours.
Use AI to structure, populate, and stress-test legal analysis while the reasoning stays the lawyer's
Make the leap from abstract legal analysis to what the law means for a specific client
Recognize that counseling a client is more than legal analysis — it is judgment about what the client should actually do
Establish sound counsel as resting on sound analysis plus knowing the client, and the lawyer's responsibility
Advocacy, Professional Responsibility & the Lawyer's Judgment
The flagship module: assembling the full judgment practice into the lawyer's operating standard. The advocacy discipline, the professional responsibility framework, and the complete standard for a lawyer who is competent, trustworthy, and irreplaceable.
Use AI to draft and refine advocacy while the persuasive strategy and theory of the case stay the lawyer's
Understand the duty of candor to the tribunal and why AI's fabricated citation is its central modern hazard
Understand the core duties that govern legal practice with AI: competence, confidentiality, and supervision
Bring together the throughline of the whole course: across every part of legal work, AI carries the production and the lawyer supplies the judgment under binding duties