Online Advanced Certificate Course on AI for Lawyers by IALA: Enrolments Open!

About IALA

Integrated Academy for Law & AI (IALA) is India’s only academy dedicated to Law & AI programmes, teaching core areas of law with the power of AI integration. Founded by NLU graduates, IALA offers industry-oriented courses designed in collaboration with leading law firms, legal professionals, and technology experts to equip learners with future-ready legal and AI skills.

About the Course

A pre-recorded, self-paced certificate course that teaches lawyers and law students how to use AI for legal research, drafting, contract review, litigation preparation and in-house work. 8 modules, approximately 12 hours, with 8 bonus resources. Registrations are open and you can start immediately after enrolling.

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After Completing This Course

You will be able to draft petitions, notices and contracts in minutes, review clauses for risk, research faster, build case chronologies, and verify every AI output before it reaches a court or a client.

Law students will be able to draft CVs, memorials and case briefs. In-house teams will be able to build audit checklists, SOPs and internal memos. By the end you will have your own AI workflow running.

Tools Covered

Claude, ChatGPT, NotebookLM, Gemini and Perplexity. 

All the tools used in this course come with a free tier, so you can follow along without paying for any subscription.

Course Structure

Module 1 — AI Basics for Lawyers

• How LLMs work: what AI actually does and doesn’t do
• Key tools overview: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and NotebookLM
• Hallucinations, errors and why AI sounds confident but can be wrong
• Professional responsibility and ethics of using AI (Bar Council rules)
• Client confidentiality risks: what to upload and what never to

Module 2 — Claude, NotebookLM and AI Prompting

• Introduction to Claude: Projects, Artifacts, Memory, Styles and connectors
• Introduction to NotebookLM: uploading sources, querying and audio overviews
• The five-part prompt framework: context, task, format, constraints and examples
• Role-based prompting and chain-of-thought reasoning for legal tasks
• Building a personal prompt library for everyday legal work

Module 3 — AI for Law Students

• Moot court research: finding and summarising case law
• Exam preparation: generating study guides, quizzes and case briefs
• Slide and presentation preparation
• Drafting moot memorials, written submissions and skeleton arguments
• Reading and analysing judgements, articles and textbooks faster
• Internship applications, cover letters, CV drafting

Module 4 — Legal Research with AI

• AI vs traditional legal research: when to use which tool and why
• Researching on Indian Kanoon with AI prompting
• Using Claude and ChatGPT for case law summarisation, analysis and comparison
• NotebookLM as a personal legal knowledge base: uploading and querying judgements, statutes and briefs
• Fact-checking AI outputs: verifying citations, cross-checking authorities and spotting hallucinations
• Building research memos and case briefs using a step-by-step AI workflow

Module 5 — Drafting and Document Review with AI

• Drafting contracts, agreements and legal notices using AI
• Contract review: clause-level risk identification and redlining with AI
• Pleadings, applications and written submissions with AI assistance
• Summarising long documents: judgements, reports and discovery materials
• Comparing multiple documents for contradictions and inconsistencies

Module 6 — AI for Litigation and Court Work

• Case strategy and argument mapping using AI
• Preparing cross-examination questions from witness statements
• Building litigation timelines and chronologies with AI
• Drafting rejoinders, replies and written arguments with AI
• Managing large case file bundles with NotebookLM

Module 7 — AI for Compliance and In-House Work

• Contract lifecycle management and AI-powered due diligence
• Regulatory compliance monitoring and audit checklists using AI
• Policy drafting, SOP creation and internal legal memos with AI
• Client communication: emails, updates and advisories using AI
• Building department-specific AI workflows for in-house teams

Module 8 — Building Your AI Legal Workflow

• Auditing your practice: identifying highest-value AI opportunities
• Connecting Claude with Google Drive, Gmail and document systems
• Creating custom Claude Projects and ChatGPT GPTs for your practice area
• Organising matter and client knowledge bases with NotebookLM
• Designing a full end-to-end AI-assisted workflow for your work

Bonus Resources

• The Master Prompt Library: Every Legal Prompt You’ll Ever Need
• The Right Tool for the Job: AI Tool-Selection Guide
• The Confidentiality Checklist: Using AI Without Breaching Client Trust
• The 30-Day AI Practice Planner: From Course to Habit
• The Legal Template Pack: AI-Ready Formats for Everyday Practice
• AI Decoded: A Lawyer’s Glossary of Machine Intelligence
• The Anonymisation Guide: Protecting Client Identity in the AI Age
• The Irreplaceable Lawyer: How to Win in the Era of AI (eBook)

Certificate

Complete the lectures and the final assessment to receive an Advanced Certificate in AI for Lawyers from IALA. 

Every certificate carries a unique credential ID and a verifiable link, which anyone can use to confirm it is genuine. The certificate can be added directly to your LinkedIn profile.

Course Details

• Format: 100% pre-recorded and self-paced
• Duration: 8 modules and 8 bonus resources, approximately 12 hours
• Mode: Online

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