Role-Based Programme
RB1650

AI-Powered Legal Research & Documentation

Smarter Legal Analysis, Drafting & Knowledge Management

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Duration
16 Hours
Level
Intermediate
Delivery
Instructor-Led
Format
Capability Training

Programme Objectives

  • Apply AI across legal research and documentation activities including research planning, source review, case and statute analysis, summarisation, drafting, and legal knowledge management.
  • Use AI-assisted techniques to identify relevant legal issues, compare authorities, extract obligations, organise evidence, and prepare structured research outputs.
  • Develop reliable workflows for legal memoranda, case briefs, issue notes, chronologies, correspondence, and document review.
  • Improve the speed, consistency, and structure of legal documentation while maintaining source verification, confidentiality, and professional judgement.
  • Apply responsible AI practices covering privilege, data protection, hallucination risk, citation accuracy, jurisdictional relevance, and human oversight.

Tools covered

Generative AI AssistantsAI-Powered Legal ResearchDocument IntelligenceLegal SummarisationCitation & Source VerificationContract & Case AnalysisLegal Drafting SupportKnowledge ManagementWorkflow Automation

Who should attend

  • Legal Researchers
  • In-House Legal Counsel
  • Legal Executives
  • Legal Associates
  • Corporate Legal Professionals
  • Legal Operations Professionals
  • Legal Documentation Professionals
  • Contract Review Professionals
  • Compliance Legal Support Professionals
  • Paralegals
  • Legal Analysts
  • Regulatory Research Professionals
  • Legal Knowledge Management Professionals
  • Legal & Compliance Team Leads

Prerequisites & Participant Readiness

  • Working knowledge of legal research, legal documentation, or corporate legal activities
  • Familiarity with legislation, regulations, case law, contracts, policies, or legal correspondence is helpful
  • Basic document and internet-research skills
  • Basic awareness of Generative AI is helpful
  • No programming knowledge required

TOC Modules

Concepts
  • Understanding Generative AI, document intelligence, research assistance, and automation in legal work
  • Identifying AI applications across legal research, summarisation, drafting, comparison, and knowledge management
  • Understanding AI assistance versus qualified legal judgement and legal accountability
  • Recognising hallucinations, fabricated citations, outdated information, and jurisdictional errors
Practical activities
  • Mapping the legal research and documentation lifecycle to AI-assisted activities
  • Identifying repetitive research and documentation tasks suitable for AI support
  • Comparing traditional and AI-assisted legal workflows

Scenarios

Legal Question to Research Memorandum

Business Query → Legal Issue Identification → AI-Assisted Research → Source Verification → Case & Statute Analysis → Legal Memorandum → Lawyer Review

Participants work through a realistic legal research request, identify the relevant legal issues, organise authoritative sources, analyse applicable material, and prepare a structured legal memorandum for professional review.

Legal Matter to Structured Case File

Emails + Contracts + Notices + Case Documents → AI Extraction → Chronology → Issues → Evidence Mapping → Research Notes → Matter Summary

Participants consolidate multiple legal documents, create a chronology, map evidence to issues, identify information gaps, and prepare a structured matter file for efficient legal review and follow-up.

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