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Advanced AI for In-House Legal
This advanced session builds on foundational AI knowledge for legal professionals. It covers how AI systems think, their limitations, and strategies to maximize their effectiveness in legal workflows, with hands-on exercises and real-world use cases.
Who it’s for: legal professionals who already know how to use AI for legal work.
Includes: one 90-minute interactive session, lifetime replay + materials, private peer community, completion certificate, and a 14-day free GC AI pilot with usage analytics.
CLE: 1.00 hours of Technology CLE Credit in California under Cal Bar Rule 2.72.
Take this course first so you get the most from this session.
What you'll learn
- Agentic AI: multi-step task reasoning, tool selection, and workflow chaining (e.g. automated multi-state legislative research)
- Wizard Prompting: a technique where AI interviews users before drafting documents
- LLM mechanics: pattern recognition and probabilistic prediction processes
- Accuracy management: understanding hallucinations and context degradation in extended conversations
Your instructors
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.
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 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.
Reviews
It was a helpful walkthrough of the tool
The speakers' knowledge
Practicality
They have a clear and engaging communication style that makes complex concepts easy to understand. They are great instructors who create a welcoming environment and encourage participation. The Advanced Legal AI 2.0 class provides valuable insights into how AI can be applied in legal practice.
Detailed and practical examples.
Unlike lots of trainings, all of the time we spent in this program was valuable. And the training came with lots of materials we could take with us.
Energetic. High-level of knowledge, with way of explaining the assuming the right level of knowledge to not make it too hard to understand or overly simplified
Very professional, informative, and organized.
This is my 3d class with the company and each one is just so helpful. I love that there is a "hands on" component - which keeps your engaged.
Learned new things