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 Duration 14 hours (2 days)

Course Outline

Introduction to Legal AI and Fine-Tuning

  • An overview of legal tech and its evolution.
  • Applications of NLP in law, including contracts, case law, and compliance.
  • The benefits and limitations of using pre-trained models in legal domains.

Preparing Legal Data for Fine-Tuning

  • Types of legal documents: contracts, terms, case law, and statutes.
  • Text cleaning, segmentation, and clause extraction techniques.
  • Annotating legal data for supervised learning.

Fine-Tuning NLP Models for Legal Tasks

  • Selecting appropriate pre-trained models, such as BERT, LegalBERT, or RoBERTa.
  • Setting up a fine-tuning pipeline using Hugging Face.
  • Training models on legal classification and extraction tasks.

Automating Contract Review

  • Identifying clause types and obligations.
  • Highlighting risk terms and potential compliance issues.
  • Summarising long contracts for efficient review.

AI-Assisted Legal Research

  • Information retrieval and ranking for case law.
  • Question answering capabilities for statutes and regulations.
  • Building legal document chatbots or assistants.

Evaluation and Interpretability

  • Key metrics: F1, precision, recall, and accuracy.
  • Model explainability in high-stakes legal contexts.
  • Tools for clause-level confidence scoring and auditing.

Deployment and Integration

  • Embedding models into legal research platforms or review tools.
  • Considerations for APIs and interfaces in law firm environments.
  • Maintaining privacy, version control, and update workflows.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A solid grasp of natural language processing fundamentals.
  • Proficiency in Python and machine learning libraries, particularly Hugging Face Transformers.
  • Familiarity with legal texts and the basic structure of legal documents.

Target Audience

  • Legal tech engineers.
  • AI developers working with law firms.
  • Machine learning professionals handling legal data.

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