Role-Based Programme
RB1648

AI-Powered Legal Research & Documentation

Smarter Case Research, Drafting & Legal Information Management

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Duration
4 Hours
Level
Awareness
Delivery
Instructor-Led
Format
Awareness Session

Programme Objectives

  • Understand how AI can support Legal Research and Documentation across issue identification, source review, summarisation, drafting, and document organisation.
  • Explore practical prompting techniques for legal research questions, case summaries, statutory analysis, document review, and legal drafting support.
  • Apply AI to organise legal information, extract relevant provisions, compare sources, and prepare structured working documents.
  • Identify opportunities to improve research speed, documentation consistency, information retrieval, and drafting productivity.
  • Recognise confidentiality, privilege, citation accuracy, jurisdictional relevance, source verification, and human-review requirements when using AI.

Tools covered

Generative AI AssistantsAI-Assisted Legal ResearchDocument IntelligenceLegal SummarisationSource ComparisonDrafting SupportCitation & Reference ReviewBasic Workflow Automation

Who should attend

  • Legal Executives
  • Legal Researchers
  • Legal Analysts
  • In-House Legal Professionals
  • Corporate Legal Professionals
  • Legal Operations Professionals
  • Paralegals
  • Contract Support Professionals
  • Compliance Professionals
  • Regulatory Research Professionals
  • Legal Documentation Executives
  • Legal Coordinators
  • Legal & Compliance Team Leads

Prerequisites & Participant Readiness

  • Basic understanding of legal research, legal documents, or corporate legal activities
  • Familiarity with statutes, regulations, contracts, cases, policies, or legal correspondence is helpful
  • Basic computer and office-productivity skills
  • No AI or programming knowledge required
  • No previous Generative AI experience required

TOC Modules

Concepts
  • Understanding Generative AI and its relevance to legal research and documentation
  • Identifying AI applications across research, summarisation, source comparison, drafting, and document organisation
  • Understanding AI assistance versus qualified legal judgement and interpretation
  • Recognising the risks of hallucinated cases, inaccurate citations, and outdated legal information
Practical activities
  • Mapping common Legal Research and Documentation activities to potential AI applications
  • Comparing a traditional legal-research task with an AI-assisted approach

Scenarios

Legal Question to Research Brief

Legal Question → AI-Assisted Research Plan → Relevant Sources → Source Review → Key Principles → Verification → Research Brief

Participants use AI to structure a sample legal research question, organise relevant source material, and prepare a concise research brief for qualified legal review.

Multiple Legal Documents to Matter Summary

Cases + Regulations + Internal Documents → AI Extraction → Key Facts & Requirements → Comparison → Open Questions → Matter Summary

Participants use AI to organise information from multiple supplied legal documents into a structured matter summary while retaining all legal interpretation and final conclusions with authorised legal professionals.

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