Introducing August Academy Certifications: Prove Your Legal AI Expertise
Legal AI adoption is accelerating across firms of every size. But most of the educational content out there falls into two buckets: vendor demos that show you which buttons to click, or high-level thought leadership that talks about AI's potential without ever getting into the mechanics of how it works.
What's missing is education that starts from first principles. How do large language models actually process legal text? Why does the way you structure a prompt change the quality of the output? What's happening under the hood when an AI tool reviews a contract versus when it drafts a memo, and why does that distinction matter for how you use it?
Without that foundational understanding, lawyers end up either underusing these tools (treating them as glorified search engines) or over-relying on them (trusting outputs they don't know how to evaluate). Neither is great.
We built August Academy to fill that gap: 100+ video tutorials that teach legal AI from the ground up, grounded in real workflows and real work product. And now we're adding certifications, so lawyers have a concrete way to demonstrate that they've actually done the learning.
Three Levels, One Clear Path
As you work through August Academy's 100+ video tutorials, your progress is tracked automatically. Hit a milestone and you earn a credential.
Legal AI Fundamentals — Awarded at 50% completion. This covers the core workflows: research, drafting, document review basics. It shows you understand how AI-assisted legal work actually functions and can apply it to everyday tasks.
Legal AI Advanced — Awarded at 80% completion. This goes deeper into complex workflows, including end-to-end case work, advanced prompting, and working across August's platform integrations in Outlook, Word, and the web app.
Legal AI Expert — Awarded at 100% completion. Full mastery. Everything from transactional work and M&A document review to litigation support, tabular review, and contract drafting. This is the credential that says you can do it all.
Why This Matters
Legal AI tools are showing up in more firms every quarter. Clients are asking about them. Partners are evaluating them. And increasingly, the lawyers who know how to use these tools well are the ones leading training sessions, advising on adoption, and getting pulled into high-value projects.
These certifications give you a concrete way to signal that expertise. Not a self-reported skill on a resume, but a verifiable credential backed by actual coursework.
What You Can Do With Them
Add them to your LinkedIn profile. Share them internally when your firm is rolling out AI tools and needs someone to lead the effort. Reference them when colleagues ask for help with AI workflows. Use them to position yourself as the go-to resource at your firm for legal AI.
Each certification comes with a shareable certificate you can download and post wherever it's relevant.
Built Around Real Work
August Academy isn't theoretical. The tutorials teach workflows that save hours every week: turning research into memos, reviewing documents at scale, drafting contracts, processing large document sets into structured output. You're not just learning about AI, but you're learning how to use it on the kind of work that actually lands on your desk.
Get Started
August Academy is available to all August users. Log in, start working through the tutorials, and your certifications will unlock automatically as you progress.