AI for Lawyers
Better People delivers AI training for Australian law firms, covering legal research, drafting and redlining, matter summarisation and client correspondence, with verification and confidentiality requirements built into the workflow rather than bolted on. Sessions run onsite or live online on the tool your firm licences, priced per cohort from $5,000.
Our team has trained:
Why does generic AI training not transfer to a law firm?
Legal work has a low tolerance for hallucination and a high bar for confidentiality. That is exactly why most off-the-shelf AI training does not fit a law firm, and why most firms end up with associates teaching themselves in the gaps.
Two concerns dominate AI adoption across the legal profession, and neither is answered by a general introduction. The first is confidentiality: what happens to privileged material once it is pasted into a tool. The second is accuracy, which in legal work is not an inconvenience but a professional exposure, because anything produced has to hold up against the primary source.
Generic training tends to treat both as a disclaimer at the end. That is why firms so often end up with associates teaching themselves in the gaps, each developing a slightly different private habit, while the firm carries the risk of all of them.
Where this shows up in the room
01
Legal research support, with the verification discipline built into the workflow, not bolted on afterwards
02
Drafting and redlining with partner sign-off still the final step
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Client correspondence and matter summarisation
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Engagement letters, file notes, and reporting
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Working inside your confidentiality and conflict-check requirements
How a session runs
These are not slideshow sessions. Participants bring laptops and use them for most of the time they are in the room, or on the call. They write their own prompts, run them, compare what different people got from the same starting point, and rework them.
The teaching runs on live demonstrations rather than screenshots, using your own material: your engagement letters, your file notes, your reporting formats, with fictionalised matter detail anywhere the real thing cannot be used. That includes demonstrating where the tool gets something wrong, because seeing a confident wrong answer is what makes the verification habit stick.
What changes after the training
The outcome we design for is confidence. Not enthusiasm, and not tool trivia, but a team comfortable using AI on real matters and clear about where the line sits.
- ✓
Fee earners treat an AI answer as a claim to be checked rather than an authority, and know how to check it
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Prompting becomes repeatable rather than a knack a few associates have
- ✓
People know what may and may not go into a tool, so the cautious stop avoiding it and the confident stop improvising
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The firm works to one standard instead of a dozen private habits
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Partners can supervise the use of AI in a matter rather than discover it
How it is delivered
Custom Programs (from $5,000) for a curriculum built around your practice areas and matter types, or Training and Workshops (from $5,000) for Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT or Gemini fluency sessions. Onsite or live online, in your timezone.
Workshop
From $5,000 + GST
- Best for
- One team, one tool, a defined gap
- Shape
- Half day per level
- Lead time
- Usually a few weeks
- You keep
- Materials and recording on request
Custom program
From $5,000 + GST
- Best for
- A rollout across roles or sites
- Shape
- Designed around your workflows
- Lead time
- Four to eight weeks
- You keep
- All curriculum, materials and assessments
Both formats are priced per cohort, not per seat. Prices are AUD, excluding GST. Travel is billed at cost.
Built by practitioners
The people running your session have been AWS instructors and Canva learning designers, and have delivered this training inside enterprise teams at Westpac, CommBank and Telstra. We have not yet published a law firm case study, and we will say so plainly rather than dress up a different industry as legal experience.
Who delivers this training
Garret Blankenship, Co-founder
Co-founder of Better People. 15+ years building AI and cloud systems at AWS and Canva. Develops training courses for Databricks and holds four Databricks certifications.
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Will this replace legal research?
No. It is training on how to use AI as a faster first pass, held to the same verification standard your practice already requires. The session teaches people to treat an AI answer as a claim to be checked against the source, not as an authority, which is the habit that keeps the tool useful and safe.
Can training run around our confidentiality requirements?
Yes, and that is part of the design conversation before the session is built. We work to your confidentiality and conflict-check rules, so the exercises use material your people are actually permitted to put into the tool.
How much does AI training for a law firm cost?
Workshops and custom programs both start at $5,000, priced per cohort rather than per seat. One fee covers the room whether you bring fifteen people or a hundred and fifty, which usually works out well below per-seat CPD pricing for a whole-of-firm rollout.
Who in the firm should attend?
Most firms run mixed cohorts of lawyers and support staff, because the workflows overlap and a shared standard is the point. Where practice groups work very differently, we recommend separate cohorts rather than one large session. Partners often attend a shorter leadership-focused session.
Do you have a law firm case study?
Not yet, and we will say so plainly rather than present a different industry as legal experience. Our published case studies cover local government, enterprise software, construction and a professional association. The people delivering your session have run AI training inside Westpac, CommBank and Telstra.
Does this count towards CPD?
No. Our sessions do not currently carry CPD accreditation, and we would rather say so plainly than leave it vague. Firms book this as practical capability training rather than as a way to accrue points, and some claim it against their own CPD arrangements, which is a decision for your firm to make.
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