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AI for Legal & Compliance

A 55-minute working brief for in-house counsel — where AI helps legal teams, where the privilege and hallucination traps live, and how to govern outside-vendor AI.

55 min·8 chapters·Individual contributor · Manager · Director·Free

Last updated: 2026-05-19

What you'll learn

By the end of this course you'll be able to:

  • Where AI legitimately helps legal — and where it shouldn't go near privileged matters
  • Contract review AI — beyond clause extraction, into negotiation support
  • Regulatory monitoring across multi-jurisdiction operations
  • How to design a compliance copilot lawyers will actually trust
  • Hallucination risk in legal contexts — concrete mitigations
  • Vendor governance — vetting outside-counsel and SaaS AI offerings

Who this is for

General Counsels, compliance officers, and contract managers — plus paralegals and legal ops leaders building the playbook their teams will actually follow. Especially useful for in-house legal departments under pressure to "use AI" while protecting privilege, handling regulated data across GCC, India, and Africa, and answering audit-committee questions on AI risk.

Curriculum

8 chapters · 2 hands-on exercises · capstone challenge

Each chapter ends with the learning objectives ticked off. Quizzes are auto-graded with feedback; exercises are open-ended and produce artifacts you can take to your team.

1

1. The legal-AI fit map

7 min
  • Identify 6 high-fit AI use cases inside a legal department
  • Recognize 3 areas where AI is the wrong tool for legal work
2

2. Contract review AI

8 minQUIZ
  • Apply AI to first-pass review, clause comparison, and playbook checks
  • Design human-in-loop workflows that protect drafting quality
3

3. Regulatory monitoring

7 minEXERCISE
  • Build an AI feed that tracks regulator updates across jurisdictions
  • Avoid the "ChatGPT says the rule is" credibility trap
4

4. Compliance copilots

7 min
  • Design a policy Q&A copilot grounded in your actual code of conduct
  • Build escalation paths to a human compliance officer
5

5. IP & confidentiality — using AI safely with privileged matters

7 minQUIZ
  • Classify legal data into 3 confidentiality tiers
  • Apply tenant, model, and prompt-level controls that preserve privilege
6

6. Hallucination risk in legal contexts

6 min
  • Spot the 4 hallucination patterns that have shown up in court filings
  • Build verification workflows your team will not skip under deadline
7

7. Vendor governance for legal departments

7 minEXERCISE
  • Vet outside-counsel and SaaS AI offerings with a 6-point checklist
  • Negotiate AI clauses into engagement letters and SaaS contracts

Capstone: Capstone: Your legal AI playbook

6 min
  • Draft a 1-page AI use policy for your legal team
  • Pick one use case and scope a 4-week pilot the GC will sign off on

Capstone deliverable: Every learner who completes this course produces «Your 1-Page Legal AI Playbook» — a tangible artifact you take back to your organization.

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References & sources

Built on cited sources — not vibes.

Every course is researched fresh against vendor documentation, regulatory sources, and peer-reviewed work. Sources used in this course:

EU AI Act — Final Text

European Parliament · Source link

NIST AI Risk Management Framework

National Institute of Standards and Technology · Source link

India DPDP Act 2023

Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India · Source link

OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications

OWASP Foundation · Source link

Course details

Track

By Function

Level

Foundational

Audience

Individual contributor, Manager, Director

Function

Legal & Compliance

Industry

Cross-Industry

Stack

Microsoft, Stack-agnostic

Paired Gennoor Way phase

train, innovate

Format

video, reading, interactive