AI Training for legal
AI training for law firmsUse the tool. Keep the judgment and the file.
A hands-on AI workshop for partners, associates and the people who run matters. We build the day around a matter type you bring and the rule for what may leave the file, so lawyers leave able to use your approved tools on real work, safely.
- Partners and the lawyers on the matter
- In person or remote
- Your precedents, your rule
- Vendor-neutral
Collective Campus is a training and advisory company founded in 2015. It builds capability in enterprise teams, with AI as one part of that work, and has run AI training and AI programs since 2022. The law firms below are a long track record of technology, design thinking and customer experience programs. It works with firms in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.
Clients
The problem in a law firm
Most large Australian firms now have a legal AI platform. The work and the bill have not caught up.
Client information in a public tool
The undertaking says the document stays with the firm. The browser does not know that. Someone has to write which matter types may touch an approved tool.
A draft that sounds finished
The output reads like advice. The lawyer still has to know where it is wrong, and the partner still signs.
A licence nobody uses well
The firm bought the platform. Associates use it for summaries and stop there, because nobody showed them a workflow on their own matters.
Training that stops at the feature tour
Lawyers need to brief a tool, challenge an output and know when not to use it.
Outcomes
What your lawyers walk away with
- A shortlist of AI use cases for your practice group, ranked by value and risk
- Hands-on reps on your approved tools, using dummy or cleared matter data
- Prompting patterns for research, first drafts, review and summaries that produce usable work
- A written rule for what may go into a tool, what stays in the file, and who can grant an exception
- Checks for catching a confident wrong answer before it reaches a client or a partner
- A 90-day plan to put AI into real workflows in one practice group
What we cover
The flow of the day
- 01
AI, demystified for legal work
What current tools do well on legal tasks, and where they fail.
- 02
Map your matters
Pick one matter type and find the high-value, low-risk places to start.
- 03
Hands-on with the tools
Real tasks on your approved tools. Everyone produces something.
- 04
Prompting that works
Patterns for drafting, review, research and client summaries.
- 05
Risk, confidentiality and verification
Data, privilege, accuracy, IP and the rules courts and regulators now expect. Practice the verification step.
- 06
The rule and the plan
Agree the may-use and must-not lists, the exception owner, and the 90-day plan.
Who it's for
Who should be in the room
Partners
The people who can say what is forbidden and who sign the advice.
Associates and lawyers on the matter
The people who will use the tool on Monday.
Practice support, knowledge and innovation
The people who run matters and own precedents.
Risk, general counsel and professional development
The people who own the rule and the training record.
Clients
Law firms we have worked with
Collective Campus has a long track record of building capability inside law firms, from software and data to design and customer experience, and AI training since 2022. The programs below are that record.
Allens
One-day Coding Concepts course for lawyers, two pilot sessions in Melbourne and Sydney, incorporating Allens-developed tech solutions.
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Allens
Auctus, the Allens legal accelerator. More than 120 applications from legaltech and regtech startups; seven selected for an eight-week program. Focus areas included data analytics, machine learning, AI and NLP.
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Allens / Linklaters
Service design workshops on intake, scoping and knowledge handoff.
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Clifford Chance
Collective Campus worked with Clifford Chance on building out its global Tech Academy. Clifford Chance announced the Tech Academy on 5 April 2018 as a global technology training programme for staff and partners, with face to face workshops run by Collective Campus: full day courses held around the world on topics from e-commerce and connected vehicles to artificial intelligence, blockchain, data privacy and cybersecurity.
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Clifford Chance
Global digital awareness program across London, Frankfurt, Paris, New York, Washington DC, Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong, described as an ongoing partnership.
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Clifford Chance
Digital awareness for each new London graduate intake.
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Clifford Chance
Design thinking training for lawyers.
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Mayer Brown
Half-day digital awareness workshop for the London office covering coding and law, blockchain, smart contracts and artificial intelligence.
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Harneys
Four live webinars for lawyers across offices, covering coding, blockchain, smart contracts and future trends including automation and AI.
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Simmons & Simmons
Coding Concepts course, two workshops in London.
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King & Wood Mallesons
Blended front-end web development course for lawyers.
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King & Wood Mallesons
Startup investment criteria review.
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Clayton Utz
Customer experience workshop for the clients and markets team.
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Osborne Clarke
Virtual design thinking workshop at the Annual Senior Associate Conference.
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Maddocks
Design thinking session for People & Culture; over 60 ideas, top two taken to prototype.
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Greenwoods & Herbert Smith Freehills
Half-day design thinking session at the annual conference, over 80 attendees.
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Mills Oakley
Collective Campus designed and ran the Mills Oakley Innovation Accelerator, which ALPMA described as the first time an Australian law firm used a full accelerator process to identify, invest in and help commercialise new legal ideas. It received 30 applications, 10 pitched, and two startups (Speak with Scout and Neural Contract) went into incubation. The accelerator won Mills Oakley the 2017 ALPMA/LexisNexis Thought Leadership Award. Featured in the AFR.
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Foot Anstey
Two webinars on rapidly testing ideas.
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Cornwall Stodart
Innovation and digital literacy culture assessment.
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King & Wood Mallesons
King & Wood Mallesons lawyers, recorded after the front-end web development course. Capability building with lawyers, on the technology behind the work they do.
“I've really enjoyed the hands-on elements, so getting to code with Alec and the other guys today in particular has been really, really good.”
“It's actually quite nice at the end of the day, even with the calculator that we made today, to have something actually kind of more physical and tangible than just a letter that you've produced.”
“Extremely useful, and I think you'd be missing out if they didn't enrol in it.”
“I 100% recommend the program to colleagues. It's been really, really interesting... it's a really great opportunity to get to understand what goes on and what's involved in coding at a sort of higher level and how it relates to what we do.”
Research
What the 2026 legal AI report found
In October 2026 Collective Campus published The State of AI in Australian Legal Services 2026. It profiles 15 Australian firms in three tiers, covers the court rulings and practice notes that now govern AI use, and includes 28 judges, leaders and founders in their own words. The report found that most of Australia's largest firms now run a specialist legal AI platform, with Harvey inside ten of the firms in the report and Legora signing four firmwide deals in eight months. The tiers draw on public information about each firm's AI use.
FAQ
Questions law firms ask
What is AI training for law firms?
It is a hands-on workshop where lawyers practise using approved AI tools on real legal tasks, such as research, first drafts, review and summaries, under a written rule for confidentiality and verification. Collective Campus runs it around a matter type the firm chooses.
Who runs AI training for law firms in Australia?
Collective Campus runs AI training for law firms in Australia and internationally. It has worked with firms including Allens, Clifford Chance, Clayton Utz, King & Wood Mallesons, Maddocks and Mills Oakley, and published The State of AI in Australian Legal Services 2026.
Do lawyers need technical skills?
No. The day is built for non-technical teams. If a lawyer can use email and a document system, they can do the session.
Which AI tools do you teach?
We are vendor-neutral. We teach on the tools your firm has approved, including legal platforms, and show where general tools fit and where they should not be used.
Is client data safe in the session?
Yes. We work with dummy or cleared data and cover exactly how to handle privileged and confidential information.
How does this handle confidentiality, privilege and court rules?
The risk module covers what may go into a tool, verification of citations and facts, and the practice notes courts have issued on AI use. The firm leaves with its own written rule and an owner for exceptions.
Who should attend?
A partner who can set the rule, the lawyers who will use the tool, and the people who own knowledge, risk or professional development.
In person or remote?
Both. Clifford Chance ran digital awareness across offices, Osborne Clarke ran design thinking as a virtual workshop, and Harneys ran webinars for lawyers in several offices.
Where do you deliver?
Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.
What if we need governance before training?
Start with AI Governance, which sets the rule for the whole firm, then train lawyers to practise it.
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Facilitator
Steve Glaveski
Founder of Collective Campus, 2× Wiley author and HBR contributor on AI and the future of work. Steve has helped 100+ organisations adopt AI and innovation responsibly, and he runs these programs himself.
Tell us how your practice works
Tell us the practice group and the matter type, and we will shape the day around it.