GenAI for Legal Researchers: Accelerating Case Analysis

Overview

In this course, we'll encourage you to view GenAI as your strategic ally for research and analysis, rather than a catch-all problem solver. Discover how to direct GenAI as a robust legal assistant that supports human expertise and analytical efforts.

You'll learn to harness GenAI’s strengths through human-supervised tasks, focusing on the analysis of extensive statutes and regulatory sections.

By utilizing ChatGPT and Claude, the widely accessible GenAI tools, you'll lay the groundwork for foundational skills and best practices, helping you to continually adapt alongside these cutting-edge technologies.

This course extends an invitation to legal professionals, law students, paralegals, and in-house counsel keen on integrating GenAI into their research workflows. Whether optimizing legal research as a practicing attorney, enhancing analytical skills as a law student, or improving efficiency as a legal assistant, this course equips you with practical strategies for employing AI effectively.

Learners should have a foundational grasp of legal research and analysis concepts to actively engage with GenAI technologies.

While familiarity with AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude is advantageous, it is not essential, as the course will introduce key practices for applying these tools in legal contexts. Prior experience in statutory interpretation and case law analysis will enhance the benefits of engaging in AI-assisted research.

By course completion, participants will articulate the conceptual underpinnings of GenAI and its significance in legal research, understand the essential role of human oversight in maximizing AI's potential, and employ GenAI for preliminary legal research on new issues.

Additionally, you will instruct AI to navigate, parse, and interpret primary legal sources and use GenAI for both quality assurance of human-generated drafts and as a writing assistant for generating initial legal documents.

This course is offered by Coursera and falls under Generative AI, ChatGPT, AI Ethics, and Claude course categories.

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