Training for Professionals
Two sessions. A deliberate gap between them. Foundations in Session 1 — live demos against your actual work in Session 2. Built for the people who will use AI day to day: partners, associates, and paralegals.
What This Is
Most AI training for law firms teaches tools. This programme teaches how to use AI on real legal work — with the judgement, habits, and governance that regulated practice requires.
Session 1 builds the foundation: how the models work, where they fail, how to structure a prompt, how to set up Claude for the firm, and what the courts and regulators currently say. Session 2 picks up where friction appeared — and runs live demos against the firm's own documents and workflows.
The gap between sessions is part of the design. It is where the firm tries things, hits the edges, and forms the questions that Session 2 answers with working examples.
AI does not mean cheaper fees. It means better service, delivered more efficiently, at a higher effective rate.
The commercial framing · Session 1
The Programme
Session 1 builds the foundations. Session 2 goes deeper against your actual work. The gap is where learning happens.
Session 1 · 2 hours
How the models work, where they fail, how to build a prompt that works, and how to set up Claude for legal practice. Regulatory and court guidance included.
Session 2 · 2 hours
Advanced settings, skills, and three live demos run against documents the firm brings. Answers the real questions the practice gap surfaced. Not slideware.
Prompt Engineering
The five-part framework turns a generic instruction into a working brief. Here is the same task — written twice.
Before training
What comes back
A generic letter with no understanding of position, jurisdiction, client, law, or firm tone. Plausible-looking. Not usable.
After training
What comes back
A jurisdictionally accurate, properly headed, strategically calibrated first draft — ready to review and send.
The five-part framework
Session 2 Live Demos
Session 2 is not slideware. Three demos, run live in Claude against material the firm brings to the session. This is where the training becomes practice.
Demo 01
A new matter lands. The clock is running. Here is how to get to a structured first view — fast — without cutting corners on review.
Demo 02
Staged drafting from a firm template with live variation instructions. Shows the iterative workflow — how to get from template to matter-specific draft without starting from scratch.
Demo 03
Financial disclosure is often where matters drag. This demo shows how to combine tool output with Claude analysis for a seamless pipeline from disclosure to findings.
Beyond the Training
Training is the entry point. Around it sits the work that turns what the firm learned into how the firm operates.
Bespoke skills built on workflows the firm already trusts. The same task, done to the same standard, by any fee-earner who runs it.
The governance layer. Written before the firm relies on AI at scale — not after something goes wrong.
A look at how the firm is actually using AI — not how it thinks it is. Where it is working, where it is not, and where the repeatable wins are sitting uncaptured.
A named adviser available when the firm hits something — not a retainer, not a ticketing system. Direct access when the work requires it.
Common Questions
Answered here, so the first session can focus on work.
No. Enterprise and Team accounts explicitly do not use conversations or documents as training data. Your client matter information stays private to the organisation. This is a critical difference from free consumer tools, and it is one of the first things the training covers — along with where to confirm it in the account settings.
On Team and Enterprise plans, no. Projects persist until you delete them. The 30-day limit applies to individual chats outside Projects on the free tier. For any work you want to keep — a matter, a client, a research thread — put it in a Project. The training covers Project setup in Session 1 and goes deeper on structure in Session 2.
Not for generating content. Court guidance across jurisdictions consistently prohibits AI from creating, altering, or embellishing witness evidence. Preparatory work behind sworn documents — research, chronologies, issue summaries — is generally permitted, subject to disclosure obligations. The training covers the current regulatory and court guidance and gives the firm a framework for reading whatever specific directions apply to its jurisdiction and practice area.
Transparency is the right position — and increasingly the required one. A formal AI protocol in your client agreements sets out how AI is used in the firm's work: AI review, human review, and client approval. It manages expectations, mitigates negligence risk, and positions the firm ahead of regulatory requirements rather than behind them. Silva can draft this as part of the compliance documentation work.
No. AI gets you to 70–80% in minutes. The last 20–30% is professional judgment. The skill is knowing which 70–80% to keep. AI handles the blank page, the data extraction, the first draft. Your fee-earners do the work that requires knowledge of the client, the strategy, and the matter — which is most of the work worth charging for.
The firms that build this in early will deliver better service at a higher effective rate. The ones that do not will be competing against those that have.
Pricing
The full programme is two sessions of two hours each, delivered remotely, to up to the agreed number of attendees. Priced per session or as a fixed programme fee. Wrap-around services — skills, compliance documentation, workflow review — scoped separately.
All programmes are subject to a brief scoping call to confirm fit and confirm attendee numbers. Bespoke programmes for larger teams scoped on enquiry.
Who this is for