Academy

101·Intro·75 min
CLE-eligible

Intro to AI for In-House Legal

An introductory course teaching legal professionals how to effectively use AI for contract drafting, legal research, and document review. Legal AI work differs fundamentally from generic AI usage due to context, nuance, and risk. No prior AI experience required.

Who it’s for: in-house attorneys, General Counsels, and legal operations professionals seeking practical AI integration.

Includes: live instruction, lifetime replay access, course materials, private peer community, completion certificate, and a 14-day GC AI pilot.

CLE: 1 hour California MCLE accredited under Cal Bar Rule 2.72(C)(2)(a)(iv). Reciprocity states are available on request.

4.4(660 reviews)Last updated Oct 5, 2026

What you'll learn

  • Prompt engineering techniques used by top-performing legal professionals
  • How to obtain reliable outputs with proper citations
  • Direct document editing within Microsoft Word using AI
  • Applying AI across contracts, memos, research, and regulatory filings
  • Practical workflows that integrate AI into daily legal work

Your instructors

Phil Lamothe
Solutions Attorney

Phil is a Solutions Attorney who helps legal professionals harness the power of AI to work more efficiently and strategically. Drawing on his experience as a former General Counsel, he brings practical insights into how in-house teams can integrate AI to enhance their legal workflows.

Jen Thomas
Solutions Attorney

Jen is a Solutions Attorney at GC AI, where she helps in-house lawyers use AI to work faster and smarter. She brings over twenty years of experience, first as a litigator and then as in-house counsel in the franchise, consumer goods, and energy industries. She has led legal teams and advised across many business functions: sales, marketing, finance, manufacturing, procurement, HR, and IT. She understands the unique demands of in-house practice and focuses on practical ways AI can increase efficiency and impact.

Courtney O'Brien
Solutions Attorney

Courtney O’Brien began her legal career at Blank Rome LLP in Philadelphia, where she spent nearly six years as a commercial litigation associate. As part of Blank Rome’s commercial litigation practice group, she represented clients across a wide range of commercial and corporate disputes, including contract litigation and class action matters.

In 2021, Courtney moved in-house at Attentive, a comprehensive text message and email marketing platform, where she spent just over five years. She joined as Senior Counsel, Product, and was later promoted to Lead Counsel, Product & Litigation, bridging the gap between the company’s product organization and its litigation exposure, advising on how a fast-moving SaaS product intersected with a complex regulatory and legal landscape.

Today, Courtney is a Solutions Attorney at GC AI, where she sits at the intersection of law and emerging technology. She teaches AI prompting classes to legal professionals and works directly with clients to implement AI solutions tailored to their transactional needs, helping legal teams put practical, well-designed AI tools to work in their day-to-day practice.

Courtney earned her J.D. from Villanova University’s Charles Widger School of Law.

Rebecca Michael
Solutions Attorney

Rebecca is a Solutions Attorney at GC AI, helping lawyers harness AI to elevate their practice. With 8+ years across Big Law and in-house roles, she has advised businesses in highly regulated environments on compliance and transactional matters. Her practice has particular depth in leveraged finance, private credit, and regulatory compliance. She also led AI-driven process work for her legal team.

Amanda Ferriss
Solutions Attorney

Amanda is a Solutions Attorney at GC AI, helping lawyers harness AI to elevate their practice. With 11 years of corporate and commercial experience spanning Big Law and in-house roles, she built a broad generalist practice with particular depth in technology.

Lauren Picconi
Solutions Advisor

Lauren Picconi is a Solutions Advisor at GC AI. She has extensive experience in legal operations, having worked on several in-house teams at a variety of high-growth companies prior to joining GC AI. Most recently, she served as Head of Global Legal Operations at a leading beauty company. She has experienced the impact of GC AI firsthand as a customer and is passionate about helping in-house legal teams effectively use AI to enhance ways of working.

Reviews

5.0Instructor

The spoke clearly and at a level attendees could understand regardless of the prior use of AI.

Arden J.Cohort 94 · October 22, 2026
5.0Instructor

Great easy to understand examples of how to use AI, how to move the needle/productivity with AI, and prompts that are easy to understand

Verified attendeeCohort 94 · October 22, 2026
4.5Instructor

Already mailed them. Relaxed and friendly presentation. Thoroughly enjoyable

Ronan H.Cohort 93 · October 14, 2026
5.0Instructor

examples were great

Bill H.Cohort 93 · October 14, 2026
5.0Instructor

If you need to understand the basics of AI and how to use GC AI, this class is fantastic. Wonderful instructor.

Amie M.Cohort 91 · October 1, 2026
5.0Instructor

Very clear instructions, great overview!

Lisa W.Cohort 91 · October 1, 2026
5.0Instructor

Nancy Rasche

Nancy R.Cohort 91 · October 1, 2026
5.0Instructor

The exercise prompts that auto-loaded into GC is a great timesaver!

Lisa H.Cohort 91 · October 1, 2026
5.0Instructor

Lauren is an excellent instructor and everything is laid out clearly and reiterated. All exercises are valuable and not at all daunting.

Stephanie B.Cohort 91 · October 1, 2026
5.0Instructor

The class was very informative and gave you time to apply the learning Lauren went over!

Suzanne D.Cohort 91 · October 1, 2026

Resources

Document analysis
Draft an approval email for an agreement
Brand Agreement
Summarize how a vendor can process your data
Software Vendor MSA
Summarize your key obligations under a lease
Commercial Lease Agreement
Analyze a privacy statement for AI training and retention
Privacy Statement
Summarize an FDA guidance document
FDA Guidance
Summarize supplier code-of-conduct obligations
Supplier Code of Conduct
Drafting
Draft a holdover-rent notice to a tenant
Commercial Lease Agreement
Draft HR FAQs on new AI hiring regulations
California AI hiring rules
Draft a greenwashing-compliance memo for marketing
Competition Bureau guidelines
Research
Research the latest TikTok legality ruling
TikTok case
Build an impact table for AI hiring regulations
California automated-decision rules
Research export-control requirements
Export controls
Build an HSR filing checklist
HSR filings