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If you’re an attorney, it’s exciting to know that there’s an AI out there willing to take work off your plate, so you can deliver better, faster services to clients. AI can help draft contracts, regulations, briefs and opinions faster than any human. Yet, AI also raises questions about privacy, misinformation, bias and discrimination and ethics. Will using it create as many problems as it solves?
The answer is to get smarter about AI, so you can use it well. While you’re at it, pick up a certification or two to prove to clients and employers that you bring a solid grasp of how to apply AI to the practice of law. These 10 courses will help you get there:
1. Artificial Intelligence and The Rule of Law
Certifying organization: The National Judicial College
Skills Learned: Get in there and understand the issues, opportunities, risks and ethics of AI and the law – especially around human rights and governance issues – by digging into this massive, open online course (MOOC) developed by UNESCO and The Future Society, with the support of the National Judicial College, and IEEE. The six modules here include an introduction to why this digital transformation matters, a look at AI adoptions across justice systems, the rise of online courts, algorithmic bias and its implications, how to safeguard human rights in the age of AI and the ethics of AI for judicial operators.
Duration: Six modules, self-paced
Test: A short quiz following each section
Cost: Free
2. AI & Law
Certifying organization: Lund University
Skills Learned: This introduction to the legal significance of AI, offered by Lund University via Coursera, will help you understand AI’s potential impact on the administration and application of law in the public sector, the legal relevance of AI in the private sector and its importance to labor law, competition law and health law. In the examination of the public sector, the course will address the ways AI can be used in criminal law, how to use it to model law and how authorities can use it to optimize services. In the private sector discussions, the course will address how AI can predict legal outcomes and how big data is being used to impact the financial markets.
Duration: Three weeks at seven hours a week
Test: Four quizzes
Cost: $59 a month for Coursera Plus
3. Berkeley Law AI Institute
Certifying organization: Berkeley Law
Skills Learned: This three-day intensive program – online or in person – will give you a foundational knowledge around everything lawyers and other professionals need to know about AI and machine learning (ML). What are the types of AI? How are companies using it in both the private and public sectors? What are the risks? How do you address ethics around privacy, fairness and transparency? You will dip into the global regulatory landscape, become capable at advising clients to make informed decisions around AI use and come away with a solid grasp of what AI means for everything from intellectual property (IP) to contracts and litigation.
Duration: Three days
Test: Four quizzes
Cost: $4,000 for in-person; $895 for livestream
4. Legal Tech and AI for Lawyers, Law Students and Professional
Certifying organization: Udemy
Skills Learned: Want to tap the power of AI to do research, write contracts and boost your job prospects? This course will cover the tools lawyers are using to automate and speed up all aspects of their work. You will learn about legal software and the trends that are creating opportunities for lawyers who have up-to-the-minute digital skills. You will also come away with an understanding of the ethical considerations around AI.
Duration: Three days
Test: Two tests
Cost: $10
5. Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP)
Certifying organization: The International Association of Privacy Professionals
Skills Learned: Sign-up for this program, so you can demonstrate that you’re a professional with a foundational knowledge of AI systems and their use cases, the impacts of AI and how to use AI responsibly. Use the exam prep tools to get up to speed on the AI life cycle, AI risks and responsible AI governance. There are free resources available if you want to study on your own and take the test. Or sign-up for the official self-paced or live virtual classes to prep for the test with the help of experts.
Duration: Eight modules, self-paced
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6. Introduction to AI for Legal Professionals
Certifying organization: AI Law Academy
Skills Learned: This introductory course, created by a team of attorneys and AI specialists, will empower your practice with the ability to use AI to deliver legal services. You’ll explore AI applications such as e-discovery, contract review and AI-powered legal research. Delivered through interactive courses and video lectures, these lessons provide hands-on experience in developing and refining prompts to get the results you want. Then they delve into real-world case studies to help you grasp the possibilities, see how AI helped other attorneys and gain practical knowledge.
Duration: Eight modules, self-paced
Cost: $999
7. AI For Lawyers (II): Tools for Legal Professionals
Certifying organization: Future Learn
Skills Learned: Learn to program in Python, explore tools used by programmers and understand essential AI and machine learning tools with a focus on your work as a legal professional. You’ll start by exploring machine learning problems, then delve into Python, PyTorch and RapidMiner to extract data from legal databases and texts. Next, you’ll learn how to use natural language processing (NLP) to do law research. Once you have some practical skills under your belt, you’ll explore how AI is altering the way lawyers access data and work smarter.
Duration: Four weeks at three hours a week
Cost: $245 for a year of Future Learn
8. AI University Foundations
Certifying organization: Oxford LawTech Education Programme
Skills Learned: At the conclusion of this six-week course, you’ll have a grasp of what AI is and the challenges it will bring to your law practice. You’ll also understand the ideal use of algorithms in making legal decisions, have a handle on the ideologies and trends around digital ethics and get a view into the opportunities AI can bring to your practice and clients.
Duration: Six weeks at three hours a week
Test: Capstone assignment
Cost: Not yet announced
9. Legal Tech and the Digital Transformation of Law
Certifying organization: Coursera
Skills Learned: What impact will the current digital revolution have on your law practice? This course will help you put it all in perspective. You’ll start with an overview of the technical and economic trends, explore the disruption AI is bringing to law and delve into blockchain and its potential within the legal realm. Then you’ll learn about the challenges of seeking justice in a world where labor is happening globally and online. Finally, you will explore tools and concepts to help you reinvent your career as a digital lawyer.
Duration: Three weeks at four hours a week
Test: Each of the four segments has a quiz
Cost: $59 per month for Coursera Plus
10. Generative AI for the Legal Profession
Certifying organization: Berkeley Law
Skills Learned: This comprehensive crash course in AI for legal professionals is five hours of focused study into generative AI and how to use it responsibly in your legal practice or corporate legal governance. It starts with an overview of what generative AI is and what it can and can’t do, moves through use cases to demonstrate how to tap AI to speed everything from writing emails to understanding the law, reviewing contracts, drafting contract clauses and finding and comparing precedents. You’ll learn how AI can help you do research, build arguments and draft legal correspondence. This asynchronous course includes canned lectures, live webinars and a Slack channel for participants.
Duration: Three weeks is recommended, but you can take as long as a year
Cost: $800
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