AI Training for Legal & Finance Teams — AI Academy by Anthropos

Explore the full The AI-Augmented Lawyer path

10 chapters

AI for Legal: Start Here

5 legal moments, 3 hallucination danger zones, and the guardrails that keep AI defensible in legal work

Contract Review & Risk Spotting

NDA/MSA/SOW review, standard playbooks, and anomaly detection with AI

AI-Drafted NDAs, MSAs & Addenda

Playbook + AI pattern, localization, and quality gates for legal drafting

Westlaw AI, Lexis+, Harvey, citation hallucination, and regulatory tracking

Legal Research with AI

Privacy, DPA & Vendor Reviews

DPA review, GDPR/AI Act check, vendor questionnaire, and the 24h review SLA

Negotiation Tracking & Internal Advisory

Redline tracking, side-by-side comparison, and internal advisory memo generation

Clause comparator, redline tracker, and contract indexing — built with AI coding agents

Coding-Lite for Legal

Litigation Support & Discovery with AI

eDiscovery, TAR protocols, privilege detection, early case assessment, and narrative assembly — AI as force-multiplier for litigation

Horizon scanning, multi-jurisdiction tracking, compliance mapping, and the AI tools that keep your regulatory program ahead of the curve

Regulatory Watch with AI

Matter Management & Outside-Counsel Spend

AI-powered invoice review, spend analytics, budget forecasting, and panel management for in-house legal teams

A non-technical introduction to AI agents — what they are, how they work, where you already use them, when they fail, and how to work alongside them effectively.

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Certificate of mastery

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Govern Microsoft Copilot at enterprise scale — DLP, sensitivity labels, license management, Microsoft Graph optimization, EU AI Act compliance, and adoption metrics.

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Copilot for Business Analysts

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Advanced Copilot workflows for Business Analysts in large enterprises — requirements elicitation, process mapping, stakeholder communication, data exploration, change impact analysis, and enterprise governance.

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Legal Practice with Cowork

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Automate contract review, NDA triage, and vendor compliance with Anthropic's official Legal plugin — the lead vertical for Cowork, with playbooks that encode your team's standard positions and distribute across counsel

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Explore the full What Are AI Agents? path

6 chapters

What Are AI Agents? Start Here

A 10-minute orientation across the five-chapter beginner path — what agents are, how they work, where you already use them, when they fail, and how to work alongside them

10 min

From Chatbot to Agent: What Changed

The mental model shift from AI that answers questions to AI that does work — explained through everyday workplace scenarios, no code required

16 min

The Building Blocks: Tools, Memory, and Goals

The three ingredients that turn a chatbot into an agent — tools it can use, memory it can draw on, and goals it can pursue — explained through workplace analogies

17 min

Agents You're Already Using

A tour of AI agents you probably already encounter at work — Microsoft Copilot, customer service bots, scheduling assistants, and more — with the exact moment each one stops being a chatbot

When Agents Fail (and Why That's Normal)

An honest look at agent limitations — hallucination chains, confident mistakes, and loops — framed as normal challenges with practical responses, not reasons to panic

16 min

Working Alongside Agents: Your New Skill

Practical guidance for working with AI agents daily — writing good instructions, knowing when to intervene, reviewing output, and building your personal agent playbook

Explore the full AI Governance & Compliance path

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7 chapters

AI Governance & Compliance: Start Here

A 12-minute orientation to the AI Governance & Compliance skill path — the rules, the evidence, and the response that turn "we should be compliant" into a program regulators accept

EU AI Act in Practice: GPAI Obligations

Ship compliant general-purpose AI before 2 Aug 2026 — scope, tech docs, copyright, systemic risk, and the Code of Practice shortcut

Model Cards and Audit Trails That Survive Regulators

Produce audit-ready model cards and signed, immutable logs that tie every output to its source, model version, and policy

AI Incident Response: From Detection to Recovery

Handle the 3am page — detect AI failures, contain blast radius, file Article 62 reports on time, and turn post-mortems into hardening

Navigate the fragmented US AI regulatory landscape — NIST AI RMF, state-level laws, post-EO federal posture, and enforcement actions that set precedent

US AI Compliance Survey

UK and Global AI Compliance

Map the compliance terrain beyond the EU and US — UK AISI, OECD AI Principles, ISO/IEC 42001 certification, and the frameworks shaping AI governance worldwide

Industry-Specific AI Compliance

Comply with sector regulators — HIPAA for healthcare AI, FDA for medical devices, FINRA for financial services, and PCI-DSS for payment systems

Explore the full Copilot for Admins & IT path

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6 chapters

Microsoft Graph Optimization for Copilot

How Graph data quality, Semantic Index behavior, and permission architecture determine whether Copilot gives your org useful answers or confident noise.

Copilot for Admins and IT: Start Here

A 12-minute orientation to the five domains an IT administrator owns when their organization deploys Microsoft 365 Copilot — and how this path connects them.

DLP and Sensitivity Labels at Tenant Scope

How Data Loss Prevention policies and sensitivity labels interact with Microsoft 365 Copilot, where the protection model works, and where it quietly fails.

Audit and EU AI Act for Copilot

Where Microsoft 365 Copilot lands in the EU AI Act risk tiers, what deployer obligations actually require, and how to build an audit-ready posture with the tools Microsoft provides and the gaps they l

License Management at Scale

Master Microsoft 365 Copilot license tiers, assignment strategies, consumption monitoring, and cost governance for enterprise IT.

Adoption Metrics and Measurement

What Microsoft's built-in analytics actually measure, where they mislead, and how to build a measurement practice that tells leadership whether Copilot is working.

Explore the full Copilot for Business Analysts path

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7 chapters

Copilot for Business Analysts: Start Here

A 12-minute orientation across the six-chapter BA skill path — from requirements elicitation to enterprise governance, the complete Copilot toolkit for advanced business analysis

Requirements Elicitation with Copilot

Turn messy stakeholder inputs into structured BRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria using M365 Copilot in Word, Loop, and Teams — with enterprise-scale context priming.

Process Mapping & Gap Analysis

Use M365 Copilot in Visio, Whiteboard, and Excel to accelerate process documentation, build as-is/to-be comparison matrices, and surface cross-departmental inefficiencies.

Stakeholder Communication & Alignment

Translate technical BA findings into audience-adapted communications using PowerPoint, Outlook, Loop, and Teams — managing competing interests and preserving precision across enterprise stakeholder levels.

Data Exploration Without Code

Use Excel Copilot, Python in Excel, and Power BI Copilot to pivot, clean, analyze, and visualize enterprise data exports — building stakeholder-ready insights from messy CSVs without writing SQL or Python manually.

24 min

Change Impact & Dependency Mapping

Trace how proposed changes ripple through systems, teams, and processes — building impact matrices, risk registers, and readiness assessments that synthesize technical and organizational dependencies for complex enterprise change programs.

Copilot in Enterprise Governance

Navigate sensitivity labels, DLP policies, data residency constraints, and audit requirements to remain productive with Copilot inside heavily regulated enterprise environments — from financial services Chinese walls to cross-border data boundaries.

Explore the full Copilot Foundations path

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4 chapters

Copilot Foundations: Start Here

A 12-minute orientation across the three-rung Copilot Foundations skill path — License (what you have) → Graph (what it sees) → Labels (what it's allowed to use). The mental model that explains every Copilot answer you'll ever read

Understanding Your Copilot License

Your org just turned Copilot on. Figure out which one you have, what it can actually do for you, and what to ask IT to fix the gap between 'I have a license' and 'it works for my job'

The Microsoft Graph & Semantic Index

How Copilot actually grounds its answers in your org's data — what it sees, what it can't see, and why answers sometimes miss. The same physics as ChatGPT Enterprise's knowledge feature or Claude Projects, but private to your tenant

Sensitivity Labels & Permission Inheritance

Of everything in your Graph, what is Copilot actually allowed to use? Sensitivity labels, the EXTRACT usage right, label inheritance into generated content, and the seven-question checklist for your compliance team

Explore the full Legal Practice with Cowork path

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5 chapters

Legal with Cowork: Start Here

An orientation across the contract-lifecycle ladder — from NDA triage to the playbook substrate every command reads.

Pre-screen incoming NDAs into standard-approval, counsel-review, or full-review buckets with /triage-nda — clause-level flags and recommended redlines.

NDA Triage

Drive /review-contract clause-by-clause against your negotiation playbook — green/yellow/red flag output with specific redline suggestions for counsel.

Contract Review

Run /vendor-check, /brief, and /respond for vendor agreements, daily briefings, incident response, and templated DSAR responses across the EU footprint.

Vendor Compliance

Author a holding-scale legal playbook for Cowork — standard positions, fallbacks, deal-breakers, per-entity overrides — packaged as a private legal plugin.

Authoring Playbooks