Linklaters has launched a training course to provide its lawyers with technical and practical expertise in Gen AI, designed and prepared by Linklaters’ Gen AI Programme Team in collaboration with The Dickson Poon School of Law at Kings College London.
Building on the launch of the firm’s foundational Gen AI training which we’re told saw over 80% of Linklaters’ staff complete the course, the new Gen AI Expert Training course aims to take proficiency to the “next level”.
The Expert training programme’s objective is to provide participants with in-depth understanding of GenAI and prompt engineering when applied to legal practice. Classroom sessions will be augmented by practical learning exercises, including a hackathon. At the end of the course, the objective is for participants to be able to identify use cases for their practice groups and functions, as well as work with data science and development teams to bring those use cases to life.
This follows Linklaters rollout of Microsoft 365’s Copilot globally earlier this summer.
Partner, Shilpa Bhandarkar, who heads up Linklaters’ client tech and AI offering, said: “This unique collaboration underlines the firm’s continued commitment to investing in Gen AI. Offering a global cohort of our people the opportunity to learn from leading academics and each other will help embed Gen AI expertise across our business. We’ve already built the foundation on which this cohort can now bring their knowledge and creativity, identifying use cases and designing solutions that will help them transform the way they work and deliver client service.”
Professor Dan Hunter, executive dean of The Dickson Poon School of Law at Kings College London added: “It is fantastic to be running this innovative training programme alongside Linklaters. We live and work in a rapidly changing legal and technical landscape, and equipping legal professionals with the tools to be able to utilise Gen AI in their practice is vital to ensure we can keep up with these developments. I look forward to seeing how participants navigate the risks, mitigations, benefits and ethical issues they are presented with when considering how they use Gen AI in legal practice.”