AI Prompt Engineering Course for Legal Professionals
Coming in 2027
Online classes on Prompt Engineering for Legal Professionals are being redesigned.
The reason is simple: the AI models improved faster than the first generation of prompt-engineering instruction could keep up. A lesson tied too closely to one model, one interface, or one release date can become stale almost as soon as it is published. Lawyers do not need another set of soon-to-expire tricks. They need durable principles.
The new course will focus on prompt-engineering methods that apply across all major models and skill levels. The goal is to teach lawyers how to think with AI, test AI, challenge AI, and use AI responsibly in legal and professional work. Model names will change. Interfaces will change. Capabilities will change. The lawyer’s duties of competence, confidentiality, verification, judgment, and supervision will not.
That is the foundation of this redesigned course.
It will not be a collection of magic prompts. Those are everywhere now, and most are worth about what they cost. Instead, the course will teach a practical method: how to frame the task, provide context, demand reasoning, test assumptions, control hallucinations, protect confidentiality, and keep the human lawyer in charge.
For now, the course is being rebuilt at a level that can survive the next waves of model improvement, including the more advanced AI systems expected before artificial general intelligence. Once practical quantum computing arrives, and AI begins to merge with quantum-enhanced computation, the field will change again. At that point, today’s AI instruction will probably need to be rebuilt from the ground up. No one yet knows exactly how AI-quantum systems will work in practice. That is part of what makes this moment both exciting and dangerous.
I am thinking about that future too. Retirement gives you time for that sort of thing, along with fewer excuses not to take long walks.
For the separate track on quantum-related legal issues, see the Quantum Law course, opened in mid-2026. That course is not a how-to manual for using quantum AI computers, which do not yet exist in practical legal use. It addresses the legal consequences already beginning to appear: quantum readiness, cybersecurity, encryption risk, regulatory duties, evidence, causation, probability, and the impact of quantum thinking on legal analysis.
The AI Prompt Engineering course I hope to complete in 2027 will be different. It will be about the practical use of today’s and tomorrow’s generative AI tools by lawyers and legal professionals.
My forty-five years at the cutting edge of law and technology have taught me one lesson over and over again: do not wait until the tools are perfected before learning how they change the work. By then, the train has usually left the station, and someone else is billing for the ticket.
No one knows exactly when AI-quantum computing will become practical. It could arrive later than expected, as new technologies often do. It could also arrive early. Either way, lawyers should begin preparing now.
TAR Course (2020)
e-Discovery Team’s Free training course on TAR (Technology Assisted Review). Seventy Two hours, all online. A good basic training and background but it does not include any of the new generative AI techniques. Instead, based on predictive coding and related proportionality based methods of document review.
FRCP (2015 Reference)
The primary Federal Rules of Civil Procedure pertaining to e-Discovery (including the 2015 amendments).
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