The Law To Know

Portal two

Law and Data

Lawyers now work with numbers, models and AI. This portal gathers the courses that teach it, the lab where you practise checking what AI writes, and the charts and maps that show how law compares across countries.

  • Courses

    Short, practical courses on risk, contracts as data, pricing and checking AI tools.

  • Practice

    In the AI Lab and the war rooms you make decisions and see what each one costs.

  • See the data

    Free charts and maps, with the source shown, that you are welcome to cite.

Programs

A program is a sequence of courses with a project at the end, sold as one purchase.

  1. Legal Engineer ProgramCourseDesign, automate and measure legal work: foundations, process and decision design, document automation, legal data, AI workflows and a portfolio project. All courses in one purchase.
  2. Law and Data Practitioner ProgramCoursePut honest numbers on legal work: data and dashboards, risk, contracts, litigation, matter economics, negotiation, due diligence, regulation and visual storytelling. Twelve courses, a Program Certificate and a With Distinction tier.

Law and Data courses

Each course is sold on its own, and the first module is free to try.

  1. Legal Risk QuantificationCourseNew, Law and Data. Turn legal judgement into numbers a client can use: probabilities, ranges, expected cost, decision trees, simulation and risk registers, with hands-on labs and a capstone. Works in any country.
  2. Checking Legal AI ToolsCourseNew, Law and Data. Test and supervise legal AI tools: planted errors, recall and precision, sampling, acceptance rates, extraction checks, playbooks and governance, with hands-on labs and a capstone.
  3. Contract Analytics for LawyersCourseNew, Law and Data. Turn contracts into data: a clause library, cleaning, portfolio questions, renewals and notice deadlines, benchmarks and honest reading of results, with hands-on labs and a capstone.
  4. Matter Economics and PricingCourseNew, Law and Data. How a legal matter makes or loses money: realisation, estimating with ranges, fee structures, pricing a fixed fee, staffing and leverage, and tracking scope change, with simulation labs and a capstone.
  5. Litigation Analytics and Outcome ForecastingCourseNew, Law and Data. Use data from past cases to answer how often claims succeed, how long they take and what they pay: cleaning a case table, win rates and intervals, durations and open cases, award ranges, forecasting and scoring forecasts, and the ethics of analysing courts. With five working tools.
  6. GDPR and AICourseNew, Law and Data. Data protection for lawyers using and advising on AI: personal data and roles, lawful bases, rights, security and breaches, processors and transfers, AI and automated decisions, and a privacy programme for a firm.
  7. Law and CybersecurityCourseNew, Law and Data. Cybersecurity for lawyers: why practices are targeted, the duties behind security, basic controls, phishing and payment fraud, ransomware and incident response, cyber law and evidence, and governing security. With a security self-check, a phishing checker and a breach clock.
  8. Legal Engineering FoundationsCourseNew, Law and Data. Course 1 of the Legal Engineer Program. What legal engineering is, how legal work is organised, finding work worth improving, working with lawyers, the toolbox, risk and governance, and measuring value. With an Opportunity Scorer and a Payback Calculator.
  9. Process Mapping and Decision DesignCourseNew, Law and Data. Course 2 of the Legal Engineer Program. Map a legal process, find the waste and root causes, write rules as decision trees and tables, test every path and design the better process. With a Decision Tree Builder and Tester.
  10. Document AutomationCourseNew, Law and Data. Course 3 of the Legal Engineer Program. Build templates with variables and conditional text, clause libraries and playbooks, design the questions, test every branch and run the system. With a Template Tester.
  11. Legal Data and DashboardsCourseNew, Law and Data. Course 4 of the Legal Engineer Program. Structure legal data, ask it questions with queries, check quality and bias, write honest metrics, design dashboards and govern the numbers. With a Query Playground.
  12. AI Workflows for Legal WorkCourseNew, Law and Data. Course 5 of the Legal Engineer Program. Prompts as specifications, retrieval and grounding, workflow patterns and checkpoints, evaluation, risk and duties, and deployment. With a Retrieval Playground.
  13. The Legal Engineer PortfolioCourseNew, Law and Data. The final course of the Legal Engineer Program. Write case studies with numbers and honest limits, present your work, describe yourself without overclaiming and find work within professional limits. With a Case Study Builder.
  14. Due Diligence and Data RoomsCourseNew, Law and Data. How legal due diligence works in a deal: scope and structure, the request list and the data room, sampling and coverage, the clauses that move in a sale, red flags and findings, turning findings into price, conditions, indemnities and warranties, and privacy, privilege and AI in review. With a Request List Tracker, a Sampling Planner, a Deal Clause Scanner and a Risk Allocator.
  15. Regulatory Mapping and Compliance AnalyticsCourseNew, Law and Data. How to map a regulation into a working compliance programme: finding and reading obligations, scope and applicability, linking duties to controls, handling several regimes, tracking change and measuring whether it works. With an Obligation Extractor, a Scope Screener, a Control Mapper and a Change Comparer.
  16. Negotiation AnalyticsCourseNew, Law and Data. Using numbers in negotiation: targets and reservation points, valuing your alternative, benchmarking against past settlements, anchors and first offers, planning and reading concessions, trading across issues and learning from outcomes. With a BATNA Valuer, a Settlement Benchmarker, a Concession Tracker and a Package Trader.
  17. Visual Storytelling for LawyersCourseNew, Law and Data. How lawyers can use pictures well: choosing the chart for the question, drawing honest charts, putting numbers in a form people understand, timelines and structure diagrams, slides and one-page summaries, and using exhibits and AI tools responsibly. With a Chart Chooser, a Chart Honesty Check, a Number Framer and a Slide Checker.

On the drawing board

  • More Law and Data courses: litigation analytics, due diligence data rooms, regulatory mapping, negotiation analytics and visual storytelling for lawyers.

The Legal AI Lab

Working tools for lawyers who use AI: check what it writes, catch what it invents, and stay in control.

  1. The Legal AI LabLabEvery lab in one place: contract pipeline, verification, stress test, contradiction engine, case desk, task triage.
  2. Build your AI-use protocolToolAnswer a short questionnaire and get a written draft AI policy for your firm, court or law school.

Rooms under pressure

Timed scenarios where the numbers, the facts and the clock all matter at once.

  1. War RoomsLabCrises that run against a clock: a breach, a dawn raid, the night before trial. One room is free to try.
  2. Moot Court SimulatorSimulatorAppellate cases before a bench that interrupts.

Charts and maps

Sourced and made to be cited.

  1. Legal World MapsChartFreeMaps of how law differs around the world.
  2. Who Went First?ChartThe year each country first did something that became a global norm.
  3. Constitutions Around the WorldChartHow old each constitution is, and when constitutional courts began.
  4. How Long Does It Take?ChartTime limits set by law, by country.
  5. The Evolution of LawChartCharts of how legal ideas changed over time.
  6. Justice by the NumbersChartCourts, judges and lawyers compared by country.
  7. Divorce RatesChartDivorce rates and trends by country.
  8. The Map of Legal IdeasToolExplore how legal concepts connect.
  9. Comparative LawReferenceCompare legal systems country by country.

On the drawing board

  • Law in Charts: a free library of about a hundred charts, each with its source and a ready citation.

Looking for something in another area? The other three portals are on the front page: Foundations of Law, Interpersonal Skills, and Legal Management and Careers.