Level 2 · 6 weeks · 100% online
AI Research & Drafting for Legal Work
Turn AI speed into defensible, source-grounded research and drafting.
Level Two · 100% online · 6 weeks · completed with a live oral defense.
Build the source-grounded research and drafting workflow that turns AI’s speed into court-ready work. You’ll frame issues, ground answers in verified sources, validate every authority, draft memos and briefs under oversight, and produce a verification appendix — the artifact that proves the work. Your capstone is a research memo you defend live.
Prerequisite: Level One (Foundations).
What you'll study
Week 1
The Source-Grounded Research Workflow
A repeatable pipeline that turns AI speed into defensible research.
Week 2
Issue Framing and Query Design
Most bad research starts with a vague question.
Week 3
Validating Authority and the Verification Appendix
The discipline that makes AI research court-ready.
Week 4
Drafting Memos and Briefs Under Oversight
Using AI to draft while keeping authorship and accountability.
Week 5
Transcript and Document Analysis
Turning depositions, contracts, and records into structured insight.
Week 6
Capstone: Building a Verification Appendix
Assemble everything into a court-ready, defensible work product.
Completion requires finishing all modules and passing the final exam (75%+), followed by a live oral defense with faculty.