CRAFTY LEARNS
Agentic AI: The practical dimension
How to empower and accelerate your legal team
Facilitated by Wordsmith:
- Laura Jeffords Greenberg, Legal Director & Head of AI Legal Academy
We had a great discussion focused on defining AI agents and how best to work with various AI tools, what makes legal-specific AI tools different from broad-purpose tools, and how to think strategically about using AI in legal work, while also including prompting best practices.
The top three things that attendees should take away from this session:
- Most lawyers are already prompting - now it’s time to level up. With 85% of the audience feeling somewhat or very comfortable with prompting, we’re past the beginner stage. But prompting is just the foundation. We explored how to go further - into designing agents that can execute tasks, not just answer questions.
- Many struggled to define “agent” and that’s okay. An AI agent is characterized by varying degrees of autonomy, goal orientation, continuous learning, independent decision-making, and the ability to break down problems into steps. It’s more than a chatbot - it’s a legal teammate in the making.
- Context is everything and tools respond differently. Tools like Copilot, Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, and Wordsmith all behave differently depending on how you prompt. Some prefer structure, others thrive on specificity. Legal-specific tools like Wordsmith understand legal context out of the box - making them more efficient for legal workflows.
If you want to learn more about this topic, here are some additional resources:
- Check out the presentation for more prompting tips
- Head to the Wordsmith Academy for more legal AI education
- Try Wordsmith AI