Useful links

Websites, videos and people to follow while learning about AI and legal practice. These links are for training and perspective, not legal authority. For judgments, court rules and professional guidance, use Research.

Websites

Start with the cases. Damien Charlotin’s AI Hallucination Cases Database tracks court and tribunal decisions addressing hallucinated legal material, including false citations and quotations. Search it to find examples across jurisdictions, then open and check the underlying decision before relying on a case. It is a case-finding tool, not a substitute for the judgment.

Learn the tools

  • Claude Academy — Anthropic’s free courses and short tutorials on Claude, Cowork, skills and AI fluency. Start here for current product instructions.
  • OpenAI Academy courses — practical courses on using ChatGPT and other OpenAI tools. Useful for learning the features of that platform rather than legal rules.
  • NotebookLM Help — Google’s instructions for adding sources, asking questions and using NotebookLM’s outputs. Check the treatment of confidential material before adding a client document.
  • LLRX — a free journal of legal research, technology and information practice, with longer guides and commentary.
  • Artificial Lawyer — news and views on legal AI products, law firm use and the legal technology market. Product announcements are leads to check, not independent evaluations.
  • LawSites / LawNext — Robert Ambrogi’s reporting and interviews on legal technology and innovation, including AI in legal practice.

The descriptions and destinations above were checked on 26 September 2026. Product features and external pages change; check the provider’s current documentation before relying on a workflow.

General AI and the law

A.I. law — YouTube playlist

A broader collection of videos on AI and legal practice. The playlist link and title were checked on 26 September 2026. Its individual videos have not been reviewed for this page, so use them for orientation and follow any legal point back to the judgment, rule or guidance itself.

Individual talks

The ethics and courts and lawyers in practice sections of the site’s reviewed video list offer shorter selections with notes on each video. For the underlying sources, use Research.

People to follow on YouTube

AI skills training

Start with a tool you use, then move to skills and workflows. The levels below are a guide based on the video titles and topics; they are not a rating of the presenters or a substitute for watching the videos. YouTube confirmed the eleven newly suggested titles and channels on 26 September 2026. Those eleven have not yet been watched and annotated for the site’s reviewed video list. Product screens and features may have changed since recording.

Beginner: first orientation

Intermediate: skills, agents and better workflows

Advanced: why skills work this way

For a guided route through legal work, use the step-by-step guides. The reviewed videos include first steps, prompting, skills and examples of other lawyers’ work, with a note on why each is listed.

Further reading

  • NotebookLM for lawyers (LLRX, December 2025) — on working from your own documents. Check confidentiality before uploading client material.
  • The Claude-Native Law Firm — Zack Shapiro’s account of his practice. His working methods are useful to consider; American professional rules do not govern South African practitioners.

Suggestions: fourie@law.co.za.