AI Courses for Legal and Advice Professionals
AI courses for lawyers and legal advisers here mostly teach using generative AI in legal work rather than the law of AI. Between them they cover prompting, checking what comes back, and the ethics, risk and regulation that come with using AI in legal work. Professional accountability is one of the questions the subject raises: how responsibility divides between a person and an automated tool.
The subject covers what generative AI is and how it fails; prompting and verification as paired skills; where the tools fit in advice and legal work; and ethics, risk management, regulation and writing an internal use policy. Material on regulation, compliance and internal policy usually follows the rules of the jurisdiction it was written for. The skills of prompting, verification and professional oversight do not. Nothing here is legal advice.
Courses for Legal & Advice Services
10 courses.
AI in Legal: From Research to Results
IBM SkillsBuild
Empower your workforce with Microsoft Copilot: Legal
Microsoft Learn
Ethical and responsible use of Generative AI
The Open University
Key considerations for successful Generative AI adoption
The Open University
Navigating risk management
The Open University
Preparing for tomorrow: horizon scanning and AI literacy
The Open University
Skills and strategies for using Generative AI
The Open University
Understanding Generative AI
The Open University
Understanding legal regulation and compliance
The Open University
Use cases for Generative AI
The Open University
Frequently asked questions
- Can generative AI be used for legal research?
- It can assist with it, though these tools can produce plausible but wrong output, known as hallucination. Checking what comes back is part of the work rather than an optional extra.
- Do these courses teach the law about AI?
- Mostly not. Most are about using generative AI in legal and advice work. Where AI regulation appears, it covers the rules for the providers of these tools and what an organization has to settle when it deploys one.
- Do I need to be a qualified lawyer to take them?
- Not usually. The field is advice and legal services broadly, including advisers, law students and volunteers; each course's page says who it was written for and what access it needs.
- Do these courses depend on which country I work in?
- The core skills mostly do not: prompting, judging output, deciding when a tool is the wrong one. Material on regulation, compliance and professional obligation usually follows the rules of the jurisdiction it was written for, so treat it as a model to compare against the rules where you work rather than a statement of your obligations.
Key concepts
The foundational terms these courses build on — each chip links to a plain-English definition in the AI Pinnacle glossary.