AI for Lawyers The Defensible.
What AI can and cannot do in legal work — and the verification habit that makes every AI-assisted document defensible.
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What AI can and cannot do in legal work — and the verification habit that makes every AI-assisted document defensible.
What AI can and cannot do in legal work — and the verification habit that makes every AI-assisted document defensible. It is narrated, practical and taught on real documents — no code, and nothing assumed.
The 1-minute overview. The full course plays in your dashboard.
Where drafts fall down is the foundations.
Not the drafting — the checking and the reasoning underneath it.
It quoted something that wasn't there
Confident summaries and invented citations. You found one — how many did you not find?
Manual re-reading doesn't scale
Ten documents, one deadline, one you. The check that worked on one matter breaks on three.
They can tell it's AI
Unlabelled inference and confident phrasing undermine the analysis — even when it is sound.
Client data can't leave the firm
Privileged material cannot be pasted into a public model. The check has to run inside your own account.
- A working four-file harness
- The authority/reasoning habit
- Written for lawyers with no prior AI knowledge
- Handle the failure that matters with confidence
- Handle authority versus reasoning with confidence
- Lawyers new to AI
- Trainees and paralegals
- Anyone at any level
8 modules, one calm step at a time.
The failure that matters
AI for Lawyers: The Defensible Foundations
Authority versus reasoning
Every sentence is either authority or reasoning
The four-file harness
Four files turn a chatbot into a tool
The verification pass
A twenty-minute pass before you sign
Disclosure and sign-off
A human always signs
Putting it to work
Run the method on one real matter
Additional guidance
Writing an instruction the model can follow
Putting it to work
Defensible from the first keystroke.
A working four-file harness
The Rules, Test Set, Checklist and Ledger, set up on one of your own documents before the course ends.
1. The failure that matters 2. Authority versus reasoning 3. The four-file harness 4. The verification pass 5. Disclosure and sign-off 6. Putting it to work 7. Additional guidance 8. Putting it to work
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Daniel Hart
Daniel has drafted contracts, research memos and court submissions across dozens of matters. He built this course so that the documents every matter needs take an hour — not a week.
Solicitor & legal-AI trainer. Every idea is shown on one real, worked matter you can copy.
The honest answers.
Do I need any technical background?
No. Everything is plain English and every term is explained. If you can use a word processor and a chatbot, you can do this.
Which AI tools does this work with?
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot, or any tool that follows instructions. The method is the same across all of them.
How long does the course take?
64 min, across 8 short modules. You can stop and resume at any point.
What do I actually get?
Narrated video, the slides, the companion skill, and a working four-file harness — all included with the course and with membership.
Is it kept current?
Yes. Last updated 2026-10-14, and the companion skill is refreshed as models and rules change.
Make your next draft defensible.
Apply it to your next matter this week — build the draft, verify every claim, and sign it.