AI fluency sprint for the legal sector
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Overview
From clients to the back office to the boardroom, AI touches everything in our organisations. To reap its rewards, and avoid falling behind, shared understanding is essential.
While AI raises regulatory, privacy, and ethical challenges, there are huge opportunities for AI fluent professionals: productivity gains, workflow wins, and new services.
This self-paced online course is specifically designed for people in the legal profession, with relevant examples and practical insights to help you use AI more strategically and get more value out of it.
What you'll learn
By the end of this course, you will be able to:- Describe artificial intelligence, including capabilities and limitations.
- Articulate ethical principles for deployment of AI.
- Identify and develop use cases and transformational AI projects within an organisation.
- Understand key features of AI deployment and integrated work design.
- Engage confidently with all key AI stakeholders inside and outside your organisation.
Sydney Executive Plus
Aims
The sprint introduces artificial intelligence, how it works and its relationship with data, the opportunities and risks associated with AI, and key considerations in developing AI strategy and operations in an organisation. Over five modules, you will learn from experts and industry leaders, share and network with other professionals, and complete a final fluency project related to your own organisation.
Content
- How does AI work and the relevance of data.
- Opportunities, risks and limits of AI.
- Different industry best practices in AI operations.
- Fluency project for yourself and your organisation.
This course is suitable for executives, leaders, and managers who are curious about AI and their organisation.
This course will be delivered online via self-paced modules and online live sessions over two weeks.
The online live sessions are recorded and made available to playback. The live sessions are not mandatory to attend but are recommended as they are interactive sessions
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Materials
All course materials are provided electronically. After enrolment, you will receive an email from Sydney Executive Plus with all the instructions you need to access the course materials and communications platforms.
Experience in the legal sector and/or legal profession as well as an understanding of business and organisational processes.
The final project requires participants to reflect on concepts and skills learned throughout the sprint, considering how they might be applied to real-world situations.
Participants are encouraged to think about their project in relation to their own organisation or experience, but this is not mandatory.
Upcoming classes
Online
When | Time | Where | Session Notes |
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Fri 15 Aug 2025 | 12pm - 2pm (UTC+10:00) | Live - Online | Live session 1 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025 | 2pm - 3pm (UTC+10:00) | Live - Online | Live session 2 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025 | 2pm - 3:30pm (UTC+10:00) | Live - Online | Live session 3 |