Legaltech Companies Are Launching Training Academies, So Are Law Firms!
The rise of artificial intelligence and digital tools in law means lawyers must learn how to use them, not just adopt them. Legaltech companies increasingly recognise that education is mission-critical to drive adoption, responsible use, and long-term trust. Rather than leaving it to individual firms, vendors, and organisations are building structured training hubs to bridge the skills gap. Here’s a look at the most notable legaltech training academies, workshops, and educational initiatives shaping legal professionals today.
As Ezra Clark and many industry commentators have noted, legal tech adoption is being held back not by the absence of tools but by a lack of structured learning and upskilling. (LinkedIn) To fill this gap, legaltech companies, industry organisations, and entire law firms are launching academies and training programs that go well beyond simple product onboarding.
Legaltech Training Academies (Vendor-Led)
Harvey Academy
Harvey, one of the leading legal AI platforms, has launched Harvey Academy to build foundational and intermediate AI skills for legal professionals. It offers structured modules on AI fundamentals, workflows, and responsible application in practice. Focused on practical use cases, the academy is designed to help lawyers get real value from AI tools, not just features.
August Academy
August provides an educational hub alongside its AI legal platform, offering hundreds of lessons on core AI tasks like document review, drafting, and workflow automation, often requiring no sales process before learning begins. These are practical lessons lawyers can start using today. (LawNext)
Legaltech Academy
Legaltech Academy is a community-driven training platform offering deep dives into legal innovation, prompt design, workflows, and practical case studies, aiming at mindset + skill development (legaltech-focused).
Lawvu Academy & Sensemaker Academy
Platforms like Lawvu and Factor’s Sensemaker Academy provide modular training on legal tech fundamentals, including AI use cases, governance, data ethics, and risk mitigation, often in partnership with law firms and corporate teams.
Law Firm-Led AI Training Initiatives
Increasingly, law firms themselves are building structured AI training programs — acknowledging that mastery of technology is now a core legal competency.
Latham & Watkins – AI Academy
Latham & Watkins launched a first-of-its-kind AI Academy to equip lawyers with hands-on training in AI technology and its implications for legal practice. The program includes immersive workshops and virtual modules tailored to lawyers at all levels, emphasizing practical skills, client service impact, and legal AI literacy. It has been recognised with legal innovation awards for its scale and depth.
In late 2025, Latham hosted a mandatory two-day AI training for more than 400 first-year associates, featuring real case studies and insights from tech and legal AI leaders, signaling that AI fluency is now an expectation, not an add-on.
Linklaters – Generative AI Expert Training
London’s Linklaters LLP has developed a multi-tiered GenAI training programme in partnership with King’s College London’s Dickson Poon School of Law. The initiative moves beyond introductory modules to advanced generative AI proficiency, including prompt engineering, use case exploration, and practical exercises such as workshops and hackathons.
AI Training Consortium (SkillBurst + Global Firms)
A group of major international law firms, including Eversheds Sutherland, Norton Rose Fulbright, Hogan Lovells, Taft, Thompson Coburn, and Womble Bond Dickinson,n joined forces via SkillBurst Interactive’s Legal Innovation Lab to co-develop generative AI training modules, available on subscription to other firms as well. These courses cover essentials like risks, ethics, governance, and AI foundations, helping to raise the baseline AI literacy across the profession.
Firm-Specific or Partnership-Led Initiatives
Ropes & Gray encourages junior lawyers to dedicate part of their billable hours toward developing AI skills as part of an informal training approach.
Kennedys LLP has partnered with legal AI vendor Spellbook to deliver an AI training program focused on real-world contract drafting and simulation exercises using AI tools.
Firms like K&L Gates, Dechert, Paul Weiss, and Jackson Lewis are reported to collaborate with technology partners to create bespoke generative AI curricula tailored to their needs.
Several firms integrate AI training into summer associate programs, ensuring new lawyers get practical tool experience early.
Why This Matters
1. Closing the AI Literacy Gap
AI is reshaping legal work, but most practicing lawyers never received formal training on it. Without structured learning, adoption can be dangerous, ineffective, or inconsistent, especially when tools are powerful but prone to errors if misused.
Training academies ensure lawyers have:
Practical AI skills (not just theory)
Ethical and data governance understanding
Hands-on workflow proficiency
2. Adoption Drives Value
Simply buying a tool doesn’t guarantee impact. Firms need change management, upskilling, and confidence in their legal teams to extract value from tech investments.
3. Responsible and Ethical AI Use
AI outputs can be misleading, inaccurate, or sensitive. Training programs embed principles of ethical use, client confidentiality, and risk mitigation into adoption — something ad-hoc experimentation cannot deliver.
The Future of Legal Tech Education
AI training is no longer a “nice to have”; it’s becoming a core professional competency across law firms and legal organisations.
Expect the following trends to continue:
More law firms launching internal AI academies
Training embedded directly into legal software platforms
Partnerships between universities, firms, and technology providers
Credentials and certificates that convey AI proficiency
In a world where AI tools are ubiquitous, training literacy will differentiate lawyers and teams — not just access to the tools themselves.