Cecilia Ziniti

OpenAI's GPT passes the NY bar exam at the 90th percentile. BCG consultants using ChatGPT finished 12% more tasks, 25.1% faster, at 40% higher quality. In closed tests, AI outperforms for contract reviews 77x faster at 0.03% the price of humans. But the absolute best legal AI? It works with you, the lawyer. Once you know the basics and how to prompt, you'll wish you'd had AI for legal work for years. This course will give you practical, immediately useful learnings on actual AI prompting with GC AI or general purpose tools like ChatGPT or Claude. You'll get a great intro to how AI works. Then get your hands dirty with an experienced GC and AI expert to help and push you with tips and tricks. I promise: you'll be shocked at the quality of AI legal outputs. Note: I teach this class on GC AI (getgc.ai) and give a free trial to the tool for class takers because it's the best AI copilot for lawyers. You *can* get good results with general purpose, non-legal AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, it's just more work and harder. Kind of like shooting in RAW on a digital camera versus using an iPhone. Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Credit InformationThis course is eligible for Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit in California. Attendees will have the opportunity to earn 1.25 CLE credits upon completion of the course.

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In-house counsel curious about AI and who want to get started and see value right away.

General counsels, and product and privacy counsel who advise on AI and want to understand and use it, so they can advise better.

Legal team members with an AI mandate from their GCs or who want to know how to use AI now.

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What you’ll get out of this course

AI is like a smart, fast intern who has read and can recall the entire internet. The metaphor will help explain _how_ you can use your already-great lawyer skills to get AI to do great work for you.

Learn how GPT and AI work and how to get great results for legal questions. 

Good prompting takes AI's answers from 65% accuracy to 92% or higher. We'll review the [context]-[task]-[format] method that gives great results and practice together and on your own.

Get and practice a proven prompting method for legal use cases like drafting, reviewing, editing, and research.

Once you have know the tools and how to iterate with AI help, you'll find asking AI will cut the time your drafting time in half. We'll talk about good uses of it and incorporating it into your team and general productivity.

Be able to identify and seize opportunities to use AI to automate and speed up your legal work. 

Learn legal AI prompting in this 90-minute course with GC AI.

AI expert, 3x General Counsel

Cohort 18 on October 9

Cohort 17 on 10/25

🆕 Updated course: Advanced AI Prompting for In-House Legal Teams. Co-taught by a 3x General Counsel and the CTO and Co-founder of GC AI, this class delves deeper into practical applications and techniques of AI prompting using GC AI*—a legal-centric LLM. Great for folks who have completed Level 101 or otherwise already familiar with AI&nbsp; Topics include:&nbsp; * Deepening your understanding of LLMs and GPT&nbsp; * Learning and practicing proven prompting methods and more advanced techniques for legal use cases&nbsp; * Creating a custom prompt library you can use again and again&nbsp; *Note: We teach this class on GC AI (getgc.ai) and give a free trial to the tool for class takers because it's the best AI copilot for lawyers. You *can* get good results with general purpose, non-legal AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, it's just more work and harder. Kind of like shooting in RAW on a digital camera versus using an ﻿iPhone.

First class. ChatGPT basics, prompt crafting overview, the "Company-Context-Task" framework, and iterating with ChatGPT. Exercises: (1) company description and (2) sample prompts - summarizing content.

Class 1 - Live

Second class. Review assignment (best prompt of the week). ChatGPT for compliance tasks, contract review, privacy/IP, litigation, forms. Exercises: (a) drafting a form agreement, (b) drafting a checklist, (c) preparing a Slack/email on your behalf.

Class 2 - Live, a week after Class 1

You'll work on prompting outside of class. The assignments will ask you to share your favorites of the week.

Assignments (Anytime - optional but Recommended)

Course Schedule 

Lawyers &amp; legal team members who already use AI and know they could be getting more out of it.

Legal AI users are frustrated that their tools aren't giving them what they want.

Product counsel or other lawyers who advise AI teams.

Who is this course for?

Get a clear overview of how generative AI and GPT work. We'll get into why and how crafting prompts with context will increase effectiveness and reduce hallucination.

Understand LLMs deeply so you can prompt them hyper-effectively.

You'll know why it happens, how to spot it, and how to avoid it.

Reduce hallucination dramatically. 

We'll cover a clear, repeatable prompting framework that yields more comprehensive and tailored answers and work product for legal and compliance tasks. You'll get a main template and 3-4 templates by practice area.

Get the tools to create a custom prompt library you can use again and again. 

Learn advanced AI prompting for legal. Requires familiarity with AI, or AI Prompting for Legal 101.