Using AI Effectively in Legal Work - Practical Prompting Skills

Introduction

Large language models are now embedded in everyday professional work, but many users still struggle to get reliable, useful results from them.

Effective prompting is not simply about ‘asking better questions’; it is about selecting the right tool for the task and structuring instructions in a way that enables the model to perform well. Poorly designed prompts often lead to vague, overconfident, or inefficient outputs.

This short webinar provides a practical introduction to prompting as a professional skill for lawyers and other professionals. You will learn how to produce more useful outputs by giving clear tasks, providing sufficient context, breaking down complex requests and specifying usable output formats.

The focus is on improving accuracy, reducing avoidable errors and developing repeatable prompting habits that enhance both speed and quality, without overestimating what LLMs can do.

Designed for lawyers, in-house counsel, business professionals, knowledge teams, legal operations and anyone using LLMs to draft, summarise, analyse, or structure information in a work context, this webinar will help you use these tools more effectively and confidently.

What You Will Learn

The webinar will cover the following:

• What prompting actually does - assigning a task, framing context and shaping the desired output
• The principles of effective prompting through clear instructions and high-quality inputs
• A practical prompt structure - instruction, context, source material and output requirements
• Improving results by grounding the model in documents, facts, or examples
• Choosing the right task type - summarisation, extraction, comparison, drafting, critique and structured analysis
• Common prompting pitfalls, including vagueness, information overload, missing context and untestable outputs
• Reducing hallucination risk by constraining tasks and requiring traceable, evidence-based responses
• Using LLMs to help design and refine prompts
• Building simple, reusable prompt patterns to improve efficiency and consistency across teams

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Monday 28th September 2026

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