Certificate in Legal Technology and Innovation Skills
This course is designed to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the intersection of law and technology. You'll learn about the latest legal tech trends and how they're being used to improve legal services.
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This course will provide an overview legal office technology tools and legal technology. Upon successful completion of this modular course, learners can understand and articulate how legal technology and innovation add value to the practice of law.
This modular course aims to develop students’ understanding of legal technology and innovation, to enable them to add value to legal practice by facilitating digitalisation and process change.
Students will be taught to understand the difference between legal technology and legal innovation.
Students will be given an overview of common office productivity tools and legal technology tools and taught to optimise their use.
Finally, students will be equipped with design thinking skills, which is the prerequisite for accurately and rigorously carrying out legal innovation.
Throughout the course, learners are fully supported, and their development is checked frequently by progress assessments. Learner performance and satisfaction is monitored to ensure that the course meets learners’ personal development needs; and industry contacts ensure that the programme is relevant and suitable for the demands of a career in the industry.
Students will learn the following throughout the duration of this course:
- Learn how to apply legal technology in practice, not just theoretical knowledge about the state of legal tech.
- Learn from legal technology and design professionals. Instructors who are the intersection of law and technology, not pure lawyers or pure technologists. They have practical experience implementing legal technology in real world use cases.
- Learn cross-functional skills that can be applied even beyond law (i.e. design thinking, agile methodology, lean design).
- Learn strategic transformation skills, how to put together a digitalisation strategy and implement it in your firm.
- Course focuses on practical skills that can add value to a legal practitioner from early on in their careers. Skills and knowledge from the course can be used to create improvements in work processes even at small scale, and can be scaled up to organisation-wide transformation.
Delivery Details
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Lecture / Tutorial/ Seminars /Workshops |
Student Independent Learning |
Total Hours |
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36 hours (12 lessons of 3 hours each) |
114 hours |
150 hours |
Total Contact Hours: 36
36 hours over 3 months
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This course will provide an overview legal office technology tools and legal technology. Upon successful completion of this modular course, learners can understand and articulate how legal technology and innovation add value to the practice of law.
This modular course aims to develop students’ understanding of legal technology and innovation, to enable them to add value to legal practice by facilitating digitalisation and process change.
Students will be taught to understand the difference between legal technology and legal innovation.
Students will be given an overview of common office productivity tools and legal technology tools and taught to optimise their use.
Finally, students will be equipped with design thinking skills, which is the prerequisite for accurately and rigorously carrying out legal innovation.
Throughout the course, learners are fully supported, and their development is checked frequently by progress assessments. Learner performance and satisfaction is monitored to ensure that the course meets learners’ personal development needs; and industry contacts ensure that the programme is relevant and suitable for the demands of a career in the industry.
Students will learn the following throughout the duration of this course:
- Learn how to apply legal technology in practice, not just theoretical knowledge about the state of legal tech.
- Learn from legal technology and design professionals. Instructors who are the intersection of law and technology, not pure lawyers or pure technologists. They have practical experience implementing legal technology in real world use cases.
- Learn cross-functional skills that can be applied even beyond law (i.e. design thinking, agile methodology, lean design).
- Learn strategic transformation skills, how to put together a digitalisation strategy and implement it in your firm.
- Course focuses on practical skills that can add value to a legal practitioner from early on in their careers. Skills and knowledge from the course can be used to create improvements in work processes even at small scale, and can be scaled up to organisation-wide transformation.
Delivery Details
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Lecture / Tutorial/ Seminars /Workshops |
Student Independent Learning |
Total Hours |
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36 hours (12 lessons of 3 hours each) |
114 hours |
150 hours |
Total Contact Hours: 36
This module aims to develop students’ understanding of legal technology and innovation, to enable them to add value to legal practice by facilitating digitalisation and process change.
Students will be taught to understand the difference between legal technology, technology law, and legal innovation.
Students will be given an overview of common office productivity tools and legal technology tools and taught to optimise their use.
Finally, students will be equipped with design thinking skills, which is the prerequisite for accurately and rigorously carrying out legal innovation.
Module Description:
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Part 1 – Introduction |
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Understanding Law & Technology |
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Part 2 – The 21st Century Office |
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Optimising use of Basic Productivity Tools |
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Understanding Business Processes & Workflows |
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Practice Management & Workflow Systems |
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Knowledge Management |
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Robotic Process Automation |
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Data Protection |
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Part 3 – Legal Technology |
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Introduction to Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning |
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Document Review & eDiscovery |
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Document Assembly & eForms |
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Electronic & Digital Signatures |
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Blockchain & other Distributed Ledger Technologies |
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Part 4 – Legal Innovation Skills |
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Introduction to Design Thinking |
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Introduction to Lean Design Principles |
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Introduction to Agile Project Management |
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Part 5 – Applications of Legal Technology & Innovation |
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Designing a Digitalisation Strategy |
This course is recommended for learners in the legal sector wishing to upskill themselves in technology.
Admission Requirements:
Minimum Academic Entry Requirement:
- Two passes in GCE A Level Examinations; or
- Completion of equivalent High School qualification (12 years); or
- Pass in appropriate Foundation / Certificate programme; or
- Other similar qualifications.
Minimum English Language Entry Requirement:
Achieved a grade C6 or better in English language O level; or
Equivalent qualification e.g., IELTS 5.5/TOEFL 550; or
LSBF PCE Advanced.
Minimum Age: 21 years
Work Experience: Minimum 1 year in a legal firm
At the end of this module, students will be able to:
- Explain the difference between legal technology, technology law, and legal innovation
- Identify relevant technologies for use in the practice of law
- Optimise use of common office productivity tools
- Identify pain points in legal processes and propose corresponding solutions
- Apply design thinking methodology to their analysis of problems and solutions
- Accurately map business processes
- Understand and articulate how legal technology and innovation add value to the practice of law
