Description
Generative AI is reshaping legal drafting—accelerating first drafts of contracts, pleadings, legal arguments, deposition questions, memos, client letters, emails, and clauses. This CLE shows practitioners how to use Gen AI to move from a blank page to a high-quality first draft faster. Practical ethics segment covering competence with technology, confidentiality, and supervision—plus a checklist for avoiding hallucinations and misattributions and for complying with evolving court expectations. Finally, we’ll walk through exemplar prompts and iterations, including responsive drafting from uploaded documents, and we’ll demonstrate how to verify authorities and reduce risk with citation validation. Practical ethics segment covering competence with technology, confidentiality, and supervision—plus a checklist for avoiding hallucinations and misattributions and for complying with evolving court expectations. Participants leave with a deeper understanding of prompts, an iteration playbook, and a defensible workflow to deploy AI drafting safely in everyday practice.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
Draft and iteratively refine legal documents using structured prompts.
Use upload-based responsive drafting and citation validation from drafts and opposing filings.
Apply an ethics-first checklist mapping Model Rules 1.1, 1.6, 5.3, and 3.3 to AI-assisted drafting.
Recognize hallucinations/misattributions and implement verification workflows.
Track court standing orders and evolving AI-use rules.