Effective prompting

Generative AI is rapidly finding its way into the day-to-day work of company lawyers. Yet using these tools well requires more than simply typing a question into Copilot. To get useful, reliable and business-relevant output, you need to know how to formulate clear instructions, provide the right context and assess the quality of the response.

That is where prompting comes in. Prompting is the skill of giving AI systems purposeful instructions to support legal work more effectively. In this training, company lawyers learn how to prompt in a structured, critical and practical way, with a focus on legal research, document review and document drafting.

In this interactive training, participants learn how to:

• structure an effective prompt using five core building blocks: role, task, context, source and output;
• use different prompting techniques;
• improve the quality of AI output with tools and techniques that help draft, refine and analyse prompts;
• apply prompting techniques in practice through hands-on exercises focused on legal research, document review and document drafting;
• work with generative AI critically and securely, with attention to limitations and risks such as errors, verification and confidentiality.

• 3-hour interactive training session (in person)
• Dutch or English
• No prior knowledge or preparation required
• The practical exercises are done in Microsoft Copilot.
• Participants are asked to bring their own laptop to participate actively in the exercises.
• This is not a training in Microsoft Copilot, but a practical training in effective prompting for company lawyers.