A practical introduction to how GenAI can improve legal team effectiveness.
Designed for in-house lawyers and law firm practitioners, this course explores where GenAI fits within legal operations, how to assess legal AI tools, key legal and governance risks, and high-value use cases such as research, contract review and drafting. Participants also gain practical prompt engineering skills and implementation insights drawn from leading legal teams.
Join us for a six-hour remote short course to explore these issues.
When and where?
14 to 16 September 2026, 9:00 to 11:00 SAST
This course will be held remotely, most likely on Zoom - exact details will be sent to registered participants a few days before the course.
Course outline
Day 1: GenAI, Legal Operations and the AI Landscape
How legal teams are using GenAI today, what is driving adoption, where it fits within legal operations, and what good practice looks like in leading legal teams.
Day 2: Selecting and Using the Right Legal AI Tools
How to assess legal AI tools, distinguish between general-purpose and legal-specific solutions, manage risk, and apply prompt engineering to legal workflows.
Day 3: GenAI in Action, Legal Use Cases
Practical use cases including legal research, contract review against playbooks, document drafting, and lessons from legal teams already deploying GenAI.
Key topics covered:
- GenAI in the legal operations landscape
- General-purpose vs. legal-specific AI tools
- Risk, governance and professional accountability
- Evaluating vendors and contractual protections
- Prompt engineering for legal work
- AI-assisted legal research
- Contract review and playbook analysis
- Drafting and workflow acceleration
- Real-world legal team use cases
Course outcomes
Core competencies participants will develop:
- Understand where GenAI fits within legal operations
- Assess and select legal AI tools more effectively
- Recognise key legal and governance risks
- Apply prompt engineering in legal contexts
- Identify suitable GenAI use cases in legal work
- Learn from practical case studies and implementation examples
Who will benefit from this course?
In-house lawyers and law firm practitioners seeking a practical understanding of how GenAI can improve legal team effectiveness.
Presenter
Kevin van Tonder brings over 25 years of international experience in legal and legal operations, including senior roles at Schlumberger, where he established three legal support centres in Bucharest, Bogotá and Kuala Lumpur. He specialises in legal operating model transformation, legal technology and performance enablement, and is a Prosci-certified change management practitioner. He leads a consulting practice focused on legal transformation. His work has been recognised in Dr Catherine McGregor’s book, Business Thinking in Practice for In-House Counsel, though his main focus remains practical: getting things done and making life easier for in-house teams.
Alexandra van der Walt is a Generative AI consultant specialising in bringing Legal GenAI into the day-to-day reality of in-house legal teams. She has worked with legal teams across the construction, banking, and FMCG industries. Her work covers the full GenAI journey - from identifying opportunities and building use cases, to implementing tools and upskilling legal teams to use AI with confidence. She is passionate about making AI accessible and genuinely useful for legal professionals.
How much?
R3,300 per person
Certificate
A digital certificate of attendance from UCT will be issued to those who attend the full course.
Please note that the digital certificate can only be viewed on a secure portal. It cannot be downloaded or printed. You will have the option of ordering a hard copy of the certificate at your own cost, including the cost of the courier fee. More information is available here.
No certificate will be issued without the full course fee having been received. Please allow up to three weeks after the end of the course for certificates to be processed.
How to sign up
Complete and submit the registration form. You will then be given the payment information. Please note that registrations will not be accepted until payment has been made.
One or two days before the course, we will send you the Zoom link. You will need to register and use a password to enter the virtual classroom.
Registrations close three days before the course starts.
Download the brochure.