AI Training for Law Firms

Artificial intelligence is noticeably changing legal work. AI assistants draft briefs and contracts, summarize extensive case files and support research into case law and legal literature. As soon as such tools are used in a law firm, a legal obligation applies.

Since 2 February 2025, Article 4 of the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) has applied. In the version applicable since 27 July 2026, it requires providers and deployers of AI systems to take measures that support the AI literacy of their staff. This applies to large firms and solo practitioners alike, as soon as AI tools such as ChatGPT or Copilot are used. The staff's knowledge, experience and training must be taken into account, as well as how the AI is used. A specific level of competence does not have to be guaranteed for any individual.

For lawyers, the risk is particularly tangible. In the USA, lawyers were sanctioned by a court because they included non-existent court decisions invented by ChatGPT in a brief without checking them. In addition, there is the lawyer's duty of confidentiality (§ 203 StGB, German Criminal Code): client data is highly confidential and must not find its way into AI tools carelessly. Structured training protects against both.

Our course translates the requirements of the EU AI Act into everyday legal practice. In five chapters, your team learns:

• Understanding AI basics: How language models work and why they can deliver persuasively worded but substantively incorrect results.
• Recognizing hallucinations: Why AI can invent court decisions, case numbers and citations, and how every legal source is consistently cross-checked before it makes its way into a brief. The documented case of the US lawyers with invented court decisions serves as a compelling teaching example.
• Protecting client data: Which data does not belong in free AI tools, what a data processing agreement achieves and how confidentiality is maintained.
• Putting the EU AI Act in context: The risk classes, the literacy obligation under Article 4, transparency obligations and the relevant deadlines.
• Using AI productively: How drafts, summaries and research can be accelerated with AI without violating a lawyer's duties of care.

This way, your team can use AI as a tool while retaining control over quality, confidentiality and liability issues.

The course is an interactive online course with a final test and a certificate of participation, which each employee completes at their own pace. The course consists of 46 learning cards with diagrams and audio narration, as well as 18 exam questions drawn from realistic law firm situations. Each of the five chapters must be passed with at least 70 percent, and progress is saved automatically, so it fits into busy days at the firm.

After completion, each employee receives a PDF certificate with a QR code for online verification, valid for one year. To be fair: a certificate is not required by law — the European Commission expressly clarifies that organizations can also document their training internally. Our certificate is exactly this practical, easily managed proof. The frequently cited fines of up to €35 million also apply exclusively to prohibited AI practices under Article 5, not to the literacy obligation under Article 4; we deliberately promote competence rather than threats of penalties. Through team management, firm owners can see who has already been trained. The content is available in 8 languages.

The prices: individuals pay €19.90, teams of 2 or more €14.90 per person, and from 20 people only €9.90 per person, each as a one-time payment with a proper invoice, plus VAT. Chapter 1 is free — try the course before you invite your team.