What you'll learn

  • Develop a clear, practical view of the legal AI landscape—on both the law firm and in-house sides—and identify where AI can create sustainable competitive advantage for your organization.

  • Make informed Build / Buy / Compose decisions about AI tools and systems and communicate a coherent technology strategy to key stakeholders.

  • Lead organizational change around AI using adaptive leadership approaches to build momentum, recruit and empower internal champions, and navigate resistance.

  • Design governance structures and policies that align AI use with professional responsibility obligations, organizational values, and evolving regulatory expectations.

  • Rethink business models, pricing, and resourcing in light of AI-enabled work, including what should be handled in-house and what is best suited for outside counsel.

  • Build and sustain a cross-market, global peer network who are grappling with similar AI strategy and implementation challenges.

Course description

Lead AI-driven change across your legal organization.

Course Outline

The course will explore topics such as:
  • The evolving legal AI market and its impact on law firms, corporate legal departments, and their relationship with AI-related vendors;
  • Build / Buy / Compose decisions, including the strategic implications of agentic systems and natural-language “vibe coding”;
  • Change management, adaptive leadership, and the role of AI champions in driving adoption;
  • Measuring AI value: distinguishing machine learning performance from management measurement and designing ROI and KPI frameworks;
  • Business-model innovation in an AI-enabled legal market, including alternatives to the billable hour;
  • Governance and professional responsibility, including “regulation by design” approaches; and
  • Training, talent development, and the future of the profession when traditional early-career work is increasingly automated.

Instructors

Faculty Chair, Leadership in Corporate Counsel; Vice Dean, Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession; Faculty Director, Center on the Legal Profession; Lester Kissel Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Harvard Law School Executive Education; Faculty Chair, Leadership in Law Firms; Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School
Program Faculty, Harvard Law School Executive Education

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