Course Outline

Introduction to Legal AI and Fine-Tuning

  • Overview of legal tech and its evolution
  • Applications of NLP in law: contracts, case law, compliance
  • 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, statutes
  • Text cleaning, segmentation, and clause extraction
  • Annotating legal data for supervised learning

Fine-Tuning NLP Models for Legal Tasks

  • Choosing a pre-trained model: BERT, LegalBERT, RoBERTa, etc.
  • Setting up a fine-tuning pipeline with Hugging Face
  • Training on legal classification and extraction tasks

Contract Review Automation

  • Detecting clause types and obligations
  • Highlighting risk terms and compliance issues
  • Summarizing long contracts for quick review

Legal Research Assistance with AI

  • Information retrieval and ranking for case law
  • Question answering on statutes and regulations
  • Building a legal document chatbot or assistant

Evaluation and Interpretability

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

Deployment and Integration

  • Embedding models in legal research platforms or review tools
  • APIs and interface considerations for law firm use
  • Maintaining privacy, version control, and update workflows

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • An understanding of natural language processing fundamentals
  • Experience with Python and machine learning libraries such as Hugging Face Transformers
  • Familiarity with legal texts and basic legal document structures

Audience

  • Legal tech engineers
  • AI developers for law firms
  • Machine learning professionals working with legal data
 14 Hours

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