Stop wasting hours reviewing routine contracts that don't need legal expertise. Learn how to quickly decide what needs legal review and what doesn't using automated risk assessment that instantly separates low-risk agreements from complex deals requiring attorney attention. What You'll Learn: - Build automated decision trees that instantly flag contracts needing legal review - Create clear criteria that separate routine agreements from complex deals - Eliminate the guesswork in contract triage with systematic risk scoring - Free up legal bandwidth by routing only high-risk contracts to attorneys Link to the Custom Instructions: https://www.canva.com/design/DAG5JuoJyhA/w6gLTVHX2VesOc2hUJkeQg/view?utm_content=DAG5JuoJyhA&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=hbf451960a8 Why It Matters: Legal teams spend 60-70% of their time on routine contracts while critical deals wait in queues. This systematic approach helps you instantly identify which contracts can proceed without legal review and which ones truly need attorney expertise, dramatically reducing turnaround times. Perfect For: In-house counsel overwhelmed by contract volume, legal operations teams seeking efficiency gains, and business teams frustrated by lengthy approval processes for standard agreements. Ready to transform your contract decision-making? Visit academy.wordsmith.ai to discover AI tools that help you quickly separate routine contracts from those requiring legal expertise.

In this on-demand session, Laura Jeffords Greenberg, Head of the Wordsmith Academy, breaks down how lawyers can use AI to draft and review contracts more efficiently while maintaining control, judgment, and quality. Originally presented at the Global AI Skills for Lawyers Summit on November 4th, this session explains where AI actually adds value in contracting, how to use structured prompts and playbooks to guide drafting and review, and how to operationalize AI inside real contracting workflows. What You’ll Learn: • Where AI provides leverage across different levels of contract complexity • How to use structured prompts and playbooks to guide drafting and review • How to operationalize AI in your contracting workflows Perfect for in-house counsel, legal ops, and commercial teams who want to move beyond templates, reduce repetitive drafting, and build workflows the business can actually use. Ready to go beyond templates? Watch now.

Ben Martin, Advisor at Wordsmith AI, shares practical lessons from implementing AI solutions in a privacy function - taking teams from drowning in repetitive work to strategic impact through hands-on AI deployment. This session covers: (1) three critical implementation lessons; (2) real-world use cases that delivered measurable time savings; (3) actionable tips and tricks for identifying AI champions, prioritising use cases, and avoiding common pitfalls that derail implementation. Designed specifically for in-house privacy lawyers and legal teams, this experience-driven session demonstrates how legal professionals can build AI solutions independently, control their own workflow improvements, and become legal engineers alongside their current roles - with practical frameworks you can implement immediately.

In this step-by-step tutorial, Elly Meenan, Legal Ops Engineer at Wordsmith, demonstrates how to set up an automated **Horizon Scanning** workflow that monitors regulatory updates, industry news, and competitor moves - directly in Slack, **with or without Zapier**. You’ll learn how to: • Identify and subscribe to relevant RSS feeds (e.g., TechCrunch, Gov.UK) • Build a Zapier automation that filters news items by topic (like “AI”) • Send filtered updates into a dedicated Slack channel • Configure Wordsmith to read and summarize articles using custom instructions • Automatically flag internal policies, tag responsible team members, and surface key actions • **Set up the same workflow entirely in Slack if you don’t use Zapier (Watch from 7:58 for how to do it without Zapier)** This practical tutorial shows how legal and compliance teams can stay ahead of change by automating early-warning signals for risks and opportunities. Ideal for legal ops professionals, in-house counsel, and anyone looking to streamline monitoring and reporting using low-code tools like Slack, Zapier, and Wordsmith.

In this introductory session, Wordsmith's CEO Ross McNairn explains the fundamental concepts of Legal AI. Ross demystifies the core technology, from the foundation models built by companies like OpenAI and Google to the different ways your private data interacts with them, such as through Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) or the context window. He also provides a simple framework for understanding the AI ecosystem, breaking it down into the infrastructure, foundation, and application layers. Finally, the video explores how this technology translates into practical legal use cases and workflows, setting the stage for the rest of Wordsmith Academy, which will focus on legal-specific AI applications.

It takes 66 days to build a habit — and the same is true for using AI in your legal work. In this 10-minute session, Laura Jeffords Greenberg (Head of Wordsmith Academy) shares 6 practical steps to build lasting AI habits as a legal professional: 1️⃣ Start small 2️⃣ Experiment 3️⃣ Pause and ask 4️⃣ Schedule it 5️⃣ Track & share 6️⃣ Make it visible This isn’t about becoming a “master prompter.” It’s about weaving AI into the workflows you already use — drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and advising. Whether you’re an in-house lawyer, at a law firm, or in legal ops, these tips will help you make AI part of your daily work.

A free, evolving framework to help legal professionals upskill and lead in the AI era. Operational – Build day-to-day AI fluency (prompting, tools, workflows) Technical – Understand how AI works so you can evaluate risks and advise others Leadership – Lead teams through AI adoption and mindset shifts