GenAI for the Legal Profession: Power User Edition
Stop Prompting. Start Leading.
Location & Start Date
Online
Self-PacedCourse Launch
February 16, 2026
Content Access: Course content available until February 15, 2027
Time Commitment: Four-week recommended schedule; 2-3 hours per week; ~6 hours total
Course Benefits
Unlike training that focuses on individual tools or use cases, this course addresses building long-lasting AI habits.
- Holistic Integration: You will learn the entire lifecycle of legal work instead of focusing on isolated use cases or tools.
- Beyond the “Perfect” Prompt: You will learn the core principles of iterative conversations and human in the loop, ensuring you won’t fail when AI gets it wrong.
- Strategic Elevation: You will learn to use AI to broaden your strategic and cross-functional view, making you a valuable leader to your organization.
- Ethical Foundation: You will be grounded in professional responsibilities, ensuring that speed never comes at the expense of confidentiality, accuracy, or security.
Who Should Participate
This course is designed for legal professionals ready to evolve their practice. No prior AI experience or technical skills are required!
Course Structure
Class Format
GenAI for the Legal Profession: Power User Edition is a self-paced online course. Students can follow the provided syllabus or choose where to start based on their knowledge and experience.
Class Lectures
The curriculum is organized into nine modules featuring digestible, self-paced video lessons designed to fit your schedule. Instructor Wei Chen uses visual presentations to demonstrate the integration of generative AI into daily legal challenges, ensuring you learn to innovate while maintaining professional responsibility and ethical standards.
Class Exercises
Targeted exercises connect each module’s AI habits to participants’ real work, building lasting AI skills that transfer as tools evolve.
Live Optional “Jam” Sessions
These Jam Sessions feature deep dives into specific use cases and provide a rare opportunity for Q&A regarding course content and effective tool usage. Note: To encourage open dialogue, these sessions are not recorded.
Course Design
Below is a list of the course modules. For an overview of the course pedagogy and a more detailed description of each module, please request the course syllabus.
Module 1
Foundations of Generative AI and Responsible Use
Provides a foundational understanding of generative AI, examined through the lens of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and ethical obligations.
Module 2
Introduction to AI Habits
Introduces the importance and key principles for building AI habits, setting the stage for practical use cases in later modules.
Module 3
Communication and Collaboration Habits
Focuses on integrating AI habits into core communication workflows, from drafting emails and correspondence to translation and building trust.
Module 4
Research and Analysis Habits
Covers AI-aided research, embedding habits like using reasoning models and deep research to validating sources.
Module 5
Drafting and Document Creation Habits
Addresses AI-supported drafting, embedding habits like clause refinement, argument structuring, and last but not least, avoiding AI slop.
Module 6
Organization and Planning Habits
Emphasizes AI for structuring workflows, embedding habits like human in the loop validation at scale.
Module 7
Presentation and Visualization Habits
Explores AI for visual presentations, understanding how to succeed when AI falters.
Module 8
Governance and Evaluation Habits
Focuses on assessing AI outputs and tools, embedding habits like building evaluation datasets and using deep research.
Module 9
AI Habits Recap and Closing Thoughts
Advises on continuous assessment and improvement.
Tuition & Discounts
General Tuition
$950
Berkeley Law Alumni & Government, Nonprofit, and University Employees
Applies to past participants of paid Berkeley Law Executive Education courses.
$800
Save 15%
Non-Attorneys
MCLE credit not provided
$855
Save 10%
Special Rates*
Group Rates: 10+ participants (30% discount). Note: Group rates are discounted off of the general tuition.
Note: If you qualify for one of the discounted or group rates, please email [email protected] for instructions to access your tuition category. Please note that we do not combine discounts.
Tuition
Tuition will cover program access for the specified time period.
Financing
If you are interested in financing this course, Sallie Mae provides competitive education loan programs for credit qualified borrowers. For more information and to apply, visit the Sallie Mae website. If you decide to pursue such financing, please submit your application to Sallie Mae first and then contact us at [email protected]. We will provide additional instructions on completing your registration.
Instructor
Wei Chen
Course Creator and Instructor
Wei Chen is the Chief Legal Officer of Infoblox, the company uniting networking and security. She has over 20 years of legal experience advising businesses of all sizes on corporate governance, strategic transactions, compliance, commercial contracts, intellectual property, operations, and legal innovations. Prior to joining Infoblox, Wei served as the SVP and Associate General Counsel, Strategic Transactions, at Salesforce, Inc. and the Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems.
Wei founded The Atticus Project, a nonprofit organization and the curator of CUAD and MAUD, two high-quality, open-sourced, AI training dataset of legal contracts. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Berkeley Center for Law and Business and a frequent lecturer on the topic of AI innovations. Wei started her legal career at Skadden Arps and Cooley. She is a sub-4-hour marathoner and an active volunteer in her community and local schools.
Contributors
Nick Abrahams
Keynote Speaker and Co-founder at Lawpath
Scott Anthony
Clinical Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Kat Fan
Data Analyst at The Atticus Project
Sarah Harrell
Data Analyst & Operations Manager at The Atticus Project
Chantal Hwang Barksdale
Principal Legal Counsel at Nvidia
Hannah Kang
Senior Corporate Counsel
Miriam Kim
Partner at Munger Tolles & Olson
Irene Liu
CA Senate AI Advisor & Executive in Residence at Berkeley Law
Ariana Shaffer
Founding Attorney at Tome
Adam Sterling
Associate Dean at Stanford Law School
Lyla Sax
Associate at Debevoise & Plimpton
Adam Shankman
Associate at Debevoise & Plimpton
Yuyang Sun
Postgraduate Associate at the Yale Center for Biodiversity & Global Change
Anwen Chen
Student at The Nueva School
Certificates & MCLE
Certificate Type
Certificate of Completion
Participants will earn a certificate of completion from Berkeley Law Executive Education.
MCLE
4 hours
This course has been approved for up to 4 MCLE credit hours plus 1 hour of Legal Ethics by the California State Bar. Attorneys from other states will need to contact their local bar to verify their own certification requirements.
Program Partners
Accessibility
For disability accommodation requests and information, please contact us at [email protected]. Please attempt to make your service request with as much advance notice as possible.
