Lawctopus’ 3-Month-Long Online Certificate Course on ‘AI for Legal Professionals’ [Aug 1-Oct 31]: Build Your AI Super Junior

This 3-month long online certificate course, taught by practitioners who are using AI will go beyond the basic chat of a ChatGPT and Claude and help you get work done, save time, and generate/save money through the use of AI.

Real workflows, real cases, real tools; Designed for practising Indian lawyers who want to save 30+ hours a month and stay ahead of the profession.

The course will contain 24 live sessions (two back-to-back 60-minute long sessions held on Sundays from 12-2 pm), 12 office hour sessions (optional, to get your assignment doubts addressed), 6 assignments, personalised feedback on each assignment, and 3 unconferences where you learn from what your peers are doing and building.

About the Course: AI for Legal Professionals

AI is not replacing lawyers. But lawyers who use AI are already replacing those who don’t. 

This course is built for practising Indian lawyers: litigators, corporate lawyers, in-house counsels, IP practitioners, academicians, and senior law students (4th and 5th year only) who want to work faster, think sharper and build a legal practice that is genuinely AI-enabled.

Over 12 weeks, every Sunday from 12-2 PM, you will learn how to use AI tools for real legal work. Beyond the Sunday sessions, you also get access to 12 optional office hours every Wednesday from 8 to 9 PM, designed for 1-1 doubt clarification, troubleshooting and getting unstuck on your assignments. 

By Week 12, you won’t just know what AI is, but you will have built your own Super AI Junior, a prompt library, an automated workflow, a content-generation thought leadership engine, that positions you as an AI-forward lawyer.

If you can spend 4 hours/week, 2 hours in attending our Sunday sessions, and another 2 hours in playing around seriously with the AI tools and assignments, you will be in good stead.

11 Unique Elements of this AI for Law Course

1. Implementation Session and Recordings: Every Sunday, 12-2 PM, a 1-hour knowledge session will be followed by a 1-hour implementation session. Session where you immediately apply what you just learned on your work, in the room, with the faculty present. You don’t watch AI being used. You use it yourself too. All recordings are accessible throughout the course. So even if you miss a Sunday, you can catch up at your own pace.
2. 6 Assignments with Written Feedback: The course has 6 assignments where you implement AI and you will receive written feedback on every piece of work you submit. You need to submit a minimum of 3 assignments to receive a certificate. If you fail once, you always get a second chance on each assignment.
3. Built for practicing lawyers: Litigation, corporate, IP: The course is built for lawyers. All the live lectures, assignments, feedback, office hour sessions are geared towards helping you work smarter: save time, , reduce costs, generate  income, create  content, automate processes , and more. Senior law students are welcome if keenly interested in becoming an AI-enabled lawyer.
4. Taught by AI practitioners: All our faculty are people who have built AI tools for lawyers, and helped them implement it in their practice. Our faculty are not academicians, but AI practitioners. 
5. Bad Output Clinics: You will see AI get it wrong: fabricated citations, hallucinated cases, biased clauses. Then you will learn exactly how to spot it before it reaches a client or court. This is the skill that separates lawyers who use AI safely from those who get embarrassed by it.
6. Live Comparison: One task – a bail application, an NDA, a research question done in 2-3 different ways in front of you: manually, with a general AI tool and with a specialised legal tool. You see where AI saves you an hour and where it still needs your judgment.
7. Ethics in Practice: Real dilemmas, not lectures. Your client wants AI to draft an affidavit but does not want it disclosed. What do you do? These are the situations you will actually face, discussed with latest court guidelines and professional liability on the table. We want to balance the potential of AI by clearly discussing the downsides too.
8. Experience ‘care’ online: The value of ‘care’ is at the heart of what we do at Lawctopus Law School. We are building the home of legal careers and you’ll experience our care, warmth, and how we go out of our way to support our learners.
9. Monthly Unconferences: At the end of each month, the cohort comes together for a peer-led session. Your peers present real work, share what failed, exchange their best prompts and hear from faculty on patterns seen across the cohort. 
10. 12 Optional Office Hours: Every Wednesday, 8-9 PM. Designed for 1-1 doubt clarification, prompt troubleshooting and getting unstuck on assignments. Faculty available to look at your specific work, not just answer general questions.
11. A Surprise for Active Participants: Learners who show up consistently, participate genuinely and contribute to the cohort can expect something special from us during the last Unconference. We don’t want to give it away just yet, but good participation never goes unnoticed at Lawctopus Law School.

Fees

Rs. 50,000 Rs. 29,999 (including GST)

Note: Paid tools’ subscription cost is NOT included in the course fees. We strongly recommend keeping a budget of Rs. 5,000 extra to buy paid tools that will be critical for this course.

About Lawctopus Law School

Lawctopus Law School has taught a wide range of practical skills to over 27,000 young lawyers, professionals, academicians, and business people. 

Over 5000 students have rated our courses, with an average of 93.2/100. Our online courses are ‘warm’ learning experiences!

AI for Legal Professionals: Course Structure

The course is divided into 3 modules, with each module running for 1 month. 

• Month 1: Foundations of AI for Legal Professionals: You will begin with the fundamentals of AI, including how the technology works, prompt engineering, basic AI tools, legal research, drafting, and ethical use of AI in legal work. 
• Month 2: AI Across Practice Areas: You will then learn how AI can be used in specific legal practice areas, including litigation, corporate law, intellectual property, and contracts. 
• Month 3: Advanced AI Workflows: The final month will focus on advanced use cases, including AI agents, advanced usage of Claude and ChatGPT, content generation, workflow automation, and more. 

Each Sunday, we do two, 1-hour long sessions from 12-2 pm: a Knowledge Session (12-1 PM) where concepts and tools are taught, followed by an Implementation Session (1-2 PM) where you apply them immediately to real work. 

An Unconference is held at the end of each module/month, enabling you and your peers to present what you are building and learn from each other.

Each month, there will be 2 assignments on which our faculty will give you personalised written feedback.

Module 1: Foundations: Understanding the Technology, Basics of Prompting, AI for Legal Research and Drafting (Weeks 1 – 4) 

Week 1:  Understanding AI and the Legal Profession (2 hours)

Knowledge Session: 12–1 PM 

• The two-lawyer story: same week, different outcomes
• What AI is and is not: myths lawyers commonly believe
• How LLMs work, in plain language
• Key terminology: machine learning, hallucinations, data governance, cloud, algorithms
• AI adoption in Indian courts, law firms and in-house teams
• What AI cannot do: accuracy risks, bias, confidentiality exposure

Implementation Session: 1–2 PM 

• Live demo: ChatGPT and Claude side-by-side on a real legal task
• First guided interaction with an AI tool
• Tool walkthrough: interface, settings, basic inputs

Week 2: AI Tools and Prompt Engineering (2 hours)

Knowledge Session: 12–1 PM 

• ChatGPT vs Claude/Claude Legal vs Gemini vs NotebookLM – what each does best?
• Indian and global legal AI tools: CaseMine, Jurisphere, Prism, NotebookLM, Jhana, Learn with Lacuna
• Choosing the right tool for the right task
• Prompt engineering: role prompting, context-setting, structured outputs, prompt chaining, markdown prompting

Implementation Session: 1–2 PM

• Live prompting exercises on real legal tasks
• Write, test and refine 5 prompts in real time
• Common prompting mistakes and how to fix them
• Begin building your personal prompt library

Week 3: Legal Research and Advisory Using AI (2 hours)

Knowledge Session: 12–1 PM

• Research workflows: case law, summarisation, cross-referencing
• Regulatory and comparative law research
• Framing research questions and converting them to structured formats
• Advisory note drafting with AI
• Verification: cross-checking citations, identifying hallucinations, source validation

Implementation Session: 1–2 PM

• Live demo: researching a legal issue end-to-end using AI
• Participants work on a research task from their own practice
• Fact-checking exercise: spotting an AI hallucination in research output

Week 4: Drafting Better with AI (2 hours)

Knowledge Session: 12–1 PM

• Drafting workflows: client emails, legal opinions, notices, replies, representations
• Compliance documents and standard templates
• Reviewing, improving and taking ownership of AI drafts
• How to brief AI the way you would brief a junior
• Ethics in drafting: disclosure, confidentiality, recent court guidelines for use of AI in courts

Implementation Session: 1–2 PM

• Live drafting: legal notice drafted in real time
• Participants draft one document from their own practice using AI
• 1–2 volunteers share their draft; cohort reviews together

Suggested tools:

1. ChatGPT Go: Rs. 399/month

2. Claude: Free version

3. Prism: Paid access will be provided by Lawctopus

Module 2: AI Across Law Practice Areas: Contracts, Corporate, Litigation, and IPR (Weeks 5 – 8) 

Week 5: Protecting Data in AI-Powered Legal Work (2 hours)

Knowledge Session · 12–1 PM

• The 3-question test: what is safe to share with AI, what is not
• DPDP Act 2023 – what counts as personal data and what it means for lawyers using AI
• Attorney-client privilege: how sharing AI tools can risk waiver
• Anonymisation techniques
• Choosing the right tool for sensitive data and getting client consent

Implementation Session · 1–2 PM

• Open implementation time: finish any task allotted by faculty related to confidentiality 
• Faculty available for individual guidance
• Faculty feedback: who is overtrusting AI, who is underusing it

Week 6: Using AI for Contracts and Commercial Practice (2 hours)

Knowledge Session · 12–1 PM

• Contract drafting and clause generation
• Redlining, risk spotting and contract review
• Due-diligence support and document summarisation
• Playbooks and contract lifecycle management
• Tools: Claude, Claude Legal, ChatGPT and others

Implementation Session · 1–2 PM

• Live demo: reviewing an NDA or contract end-to-end using AI
• Participants review and improve a commercial contract in real time
• Redlining exercise with AI assistance

Week 7: Using AI for Litigation Practice (2 hours)

Knowledge Session · 12–1 PM

• Case preparation: chronologies, case summaries, evidence organisation
• Drafting petitions, written submissions, bail applications
• Cross-examination preparation using AI
• Hearing preparation and client communication
• Indian court context: where AI helps most and where to be careful

Implementation Session · 1–2 PM

• Live demo: drafting a written submission and cross-examination questions
• Participants build a litigation preparation checklist for a real or simulated matter
• Verification walkthrough before using output in court

Week 8: Using AI for Corporate, In-House and Intellectual Property (2 hours)

Knowledge Session · 12–1 PM

• Corporate and in-house: regulatory monitoring, compliance tracking, board notes, vendor reviews

• Building board presentations and compliance decks using Gamma
• IP practice: trademark search, patent prior art analysis, infringement risk, licensing agreements
• Knowledge management: NotebookLM, Claude Projects/GPT projects, personal legal knowledge base

Implementation Session · 1–2 PM

• Live demo: trademark search workflow, Reply to Examination Report, compliance checklist using AI
• Live demo: building a board presentation or compliance deck using Gamma
• Participants pick their most relevant area and build one workflow live

Suggested tools:

1. ChatGPT Go: Rs. 399/month

2. Claude Pro: Rs. 1899/month

3. Prism: Paid access will be provided by Lawctopus

4. Notebook LM: Free version

Note: Module 3 is an advanced module and will help you build that AI Super Junior. To help you do that, we will be releasing some pre-work (readings, videos, assignments) to help you prepare for this week.

Module 3: Legal Workflow Automation, Building AI Agents, and AI-Enabled Practice Growth (Weeks 9 – 12) 

Week 9: Building Your Personal AI System (2 hours)

Knowledge Session: 12–1 PM

• Advanced prompting: chain-of-thought, role prompting, structured outputs
• Custom GPTs and Claude Projects/Claude Legal: setting up for your specific practice
• Knowledge bases and reusable templates
• Handling long documents: contracts, judgments, reports

Implementation Session: 1–2 PM

• Live demo: setting up a Custom GPT or Claude Project/Claude Legal for a law practice
• Participants configure their own setup during the session
• Peer exchange: share your single most useful prompt

Week 10: Automating Legal Workflows (2 hours)

Knowledge Session: 12–1 PM

• Automating repetitive tasks: onboarding, intake forms, document generation, email follow-ups
• Research-to-draft workflows
• Tools: Zapier, Make, n8n – conceptual overview with legal use cases
• Safe handling of sensitive legal data in automated systems
• Data privacy and professional responsibility in automation

Implementation Session: 1–2 PM

• Live demo: automating a client update email workflow
• Participants map one repetitive task from their practice for automation
• Step-by-step walkthrough of a simple automation setup

Week 11:  AI Agents and the Future Legal Office (2 hours)

Knowledge Session: 12–1 PM

• What AI agents are and how they differ from regular AI tools
• Agentic and multi-agent workflows: explained without jargon
• Legal use cases: intake, research, drafting, review, delivery
• Human-in-the-loop supervision and quality control
• Data privacy and liability considerations in agentic workflows

Implementation Session: 1–2 PM

• Live demo: building a simple legal AI agent and/or an AI deployed website
• Participants sketch an agentic workflow for their own practice
• Group discussion: where does the lawyer’s judgment remain irreplaceable?

Week 12: From User to Leader: Building AI Forward Practice (2 hours)

Knowledge Session: 12–1 PM

• Using AI to increase billable value and explore alternative fee models
• Positioning as an AI-forward lawyer: freelancing, consulting, building a niche
• Personal branding: LinkedIn content, thought leadership, PPTs, blogs, newsletters, short videos
• Building a simple professional website using AI
• What comes next: staying current, bespoke implementation

Implementation Session · 1–2 PM

• Work on a content piece such as a LinkedIn post, blog, PPTs, newsletter, etc.
• Participants articulate: How will you position yourself as AI-forward? 
• Optional volunteer shares; faculty provide real-time feedback on positioning

Suggested tools:

1. ChatGPT Go: Rs. 399/month

2. Claude Pro: Rs. 1899/month

3. Prism: Paid access will be provided by Lawctopus

4. n8n: Free version

Note: Paid tools’ subscription cost is NOT included in the course fees. We strongly recommend keeping a budget of Rs. 5,000 extra to buy paid tools that will be critical for this course.

6 Assignments & 3 Unconferences

There shall be 6 assignments and you need to submit at least 3 assignments to procure a certificate. 

In addtional to the assignments, you’ll be participating in 3 uncoferences (one every month) where you’ll learn from what your peers are building.

You receive written feedback and grades on every piece of work submitted by you.

Fundamental Assignments

Note: The purpose of these assignments is to inform and inspire lawyers about the potential and limitations of using AI or legal work. Through UnConferences, you’ll also learn from what your peers are building.

Assignment 1: Your First AI Task

Take one task from your actual work: a client email, a contract, or a legal draft and do it using either ChatGPT or Claude. Submit the prompt, the output and a short note on what surprised you.

Assignment 2: Client Advisory Note

Research a real legal issue using AI and produce a short advisory note (1–2 pages). Submit the AI output, your edited version and a note on what you changed and why.

Assignment 3: Contract/Legal Draft Review

Take a contract or another legal draft from your practice (or use a sample). Run it through AI for risk flagging and clause review. Submit the original, AI output and your accuracy assessment.

Advanced AI Assignments

Note: The purpose of these assignments is to help lawyers start building an AI Super Junior: a junior who is embedded into your legal practice, goes far beyond regular chat, works 24 X 7 X 365 and helps you save at least 30 hours/month.

Assignment 4: Build a Workflow for Your Practice Area/AI AGent

Choose one area: corporate, IP or knowledge management and build an AI workflow/AI agent relevant to your work. Include a Gamma-built presentation for your problem and what you have built. Your journey towards building an AI Super Junior starts.

Assignment 5: Custom GPT or Claude Project

Set up a Custom GPT or Claude Project configured for your practice. Start testing on and building automation for real tasks that you perform. Submit a short report on what you configured, how it performed and what you would refine.

Assignment 6: Create Content Properties in Your Voice

AI generate slop is writing that no one reads. But you can train AI to write in your voice. Deploy AI to help you write articles for LinkedIn, do basic research and writing for industry websites and blogs, and make well designed presentations for talks and conferences.

How will this AI for Law Course help you?

• Automating repetitive tasks such as research, drafting, client emails, intake forms so that you can focus on work that actually needs your judgment by saving 30+ hours a month.
• Leave with a CustomGPT or Claude Project trained on your practice, a prompt library of 30+ tested prompts and at least one live automation running without you.
• Bring your own contracts, briefs and legal research questions through your actual work live, not a case study someone else drafted.
• Learn to spot hallucinations, fabricated citations and biased clauses before they reach a client or court room.
• Every session ends with an implementation session. You do not just watch AI being used, you use it yourself during the session.
• Publish your first piece of AI-enabled content and start building a visible presence as a lawyer who is ahead of the curve.
• Build an AI Super Junior who works 24 x 7 x 365.

Who can enrol for this course?

• Lawyers and advocates, litigators, corporate lawyers, in-house counsels looking to speed up research, court prep, compliance and drafting
• Senior legal professionals who have heard of AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude but have not used them professionally yet
• Academicians and faculty looking to upskill themselves practically in how the legal industry is using AI
• Senior law students and budding lawyers preparing for a tech-forward legal career

AI for Legal Professionals: Course Developers and Trainers

Course Fee

Rs. 50,000 Rs. 29,999 (including GST)

Note: Additional recommended cost such as Claude or ChatGPT subscription (recommended, not included in the course).

Recommended AI-Tool Subscriptions

Tool	Plan	Approximate Cost	Why You Need It
ChatGPT	ChatGPT Plus ChatGPT Go	₹ 1,999/month ₹ 399/month	Required to build Custom GPTs and advanced features used in Weeks 2 and 9
Claude	Pro (Recommended)	$20/month (₹ 1,899)	Required for Claude Projects used in Week 9-11; better for long documents and building AI agents
Notebook LM	Free	Free	Used for knowledge management in Week 8
Gamma	Free/Pro	Free tier sufficient	Used for content creation/core assignment for PPT in Week 8 and 12
n8n	Free/Cloud	Free self-hosted	Used for automation demos in Weeks 10-11

Add-on benefits

• Get a completion certificate issued by Lawctopus Law School after the completion of the course.
• Merit certificates will be awarded to the best-performing learners.
• Build a useful workflow and get a chance to be interviewed on Lawctopus.
• Lawyers who successfully complete the course get two posts to hire interns or full-time hirings worth Rs. 20,000 free of cost on Lawctopus.
• Become a part of LLS alumni and get exclusive notifications about internships, jobs. Also get discounts on future courses and workshops.

Money Back Guarantee

In case you do this course sincerely and are still dissatisfied with it, we’ll refund you 100% of the money you invested; no questions asked. We are that confident in our course!

What does ‘sincerely’ mean? It means you attend at least 66% (2/3rds) of the live classes and successfully complete the 3 compulsory assignments. (For each assignment, a second deadline is given to those who miss the first one. Also, a second chance is given if you aren’t able to pass the assignment in the first attempt.)

Just email us at support@lawctopus.com, and the refund will be issued within 7-10 working days.

Questions?

If you have any questions about the course, please email courses@lawctopus.com, and we will respond within 24 hours!