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A Lawnova Academy BlueShark PDF.LEGAL VerdictPilot COAPP
100% Online Certificate Academy · Est. 2026

Build AI fluency for
modern legal practice.

A fully online academy for legal professionals — study AI for research, drafting, firm operations, and trial preparation without leaving your office or your caseload. Practical certificates, guided product labs, and a final oral defense over live video with a Lawnova faculty member.

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100%
Online & Remote
4
Flagship Certificates
4
Live Product Labs
Level Two
LN
Professional Certificate

AI Research &
Drafting for Legal Work

Format100% Online · 6 Weeks
Primary LabsBlueShark · PDF.LEGAL
Final ExamLive Oral Defense
Credential verifiable on lawnova.org/verify

Not a law school.
A working competence lab.

Lawyers carry a duty of technological competence under ABA Model Rule 1.1. Lawnova Academy teaches that competence the way it’s actually practiced — inside supervised, skills-based labs that run on the same tools your firm uses every day.

Certificates verify completion of a private professional training program. Certain live courses may separately qualify for CLE where explicitly marked.

100% Online · Built around your work

Earn the credential without leaving your practice.

Lawnova Academy is fully remote. There's no campus and no travel — you study from your office, your firm, or your home, around your caseload. Then you finish the way it matters: defending your work live, to a faculty member, over video.

1

Study from anywhere

Every lesson, reading, and product lab runs in your browser. No campus, no commute, no relocation — just sign in and learn from wherever you work.

2

Around your caseload

Cohorts are paced for working professionals — coursework and labs you complete on your own schedule, with live sessions you can plan around billable hours.

3

Live oral defense

Your final exam is a one-on-one video conference with a Lawnova professor — you present and defend your capstone work for evaluation. A real assessment, earned, not auto-graded.

Fully online · live video defense · verifiable certificate on completion.

The Curriculum

Four flagship certificates, stacked into one pathway.

Enter through foundations and civic literacy; advance into drafting, operations, and trial simulation. Each program mirrors a part of the Lawnova stack you already see in practice.

I
Level One
$295

Foundations of AI for Legal Professionals

Models, prompting, retrieval, verification, and ethics fundamentals — a safe entry point for students, new lawyers, legal staff, and informed public users.

6 weeks · Cohort or self-pacedLab: Sandbox + BlueShark
II
Level Two
$895

AI Research & Drafting for Legal Work

Structure research, summarize authorities, draft with source control, and build a verification appendix that shows your work — with attorney oversight throughout.

6 weeks · CohortView curriculum →
III
Level Three
$995

Law Firm Operations & Automation

Design intake, timekeeping, billing, notification, and client-communication workflows on Lawnova’s operations layer. Standardize, don’t just “learn software.”

6 weeks · CohortBest for: Firms & legal ops
IV
Level Four
$1,495

Advanced Systems & Trial Simulation

Transcript intelligence, jury and verdict modeling, and appellate drafting in high-stakes litigation workflows — culminating in a panel-reviewed capstone simulation.

6 weeks + capstoneLab: VerdictPilot · COAPP
Certification Architecture

A visible ladder from literacy to litigation.

Stackable levels, eight micro-credentials underneath, and recertification keyed to how fast legal-AI obligations actually change.

Level One

Foundations

AI literacy, ethics, and responsible-use protocols.

Level Two

Research & Drafting

Source-grounded drafting with verification.

Level Three

Operations & Automation

Firm workflows, governance, and KPIs.

Level Four

Advanced & Trial

Litigation simulation and capstone.

Prompt Design & Verification Transcript Intelligence Citation & Source Hygiene Voice-to-Matter Workflows Trial Simulation Colorado Appellate Drafting Firm AI Policy & Governance AI for Public Legal Literacy
Academy on the front. Product labs on the back.

Learn inside the real environments.

Sign into the Academy, enroll in a cohort, and enter gated exercises inside the actual Lawnova product labs — not slideware.

Drafting · Research

BlueShark

AI legal copilot for letters, motions, and memo structures with human review built in.

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Transcript Intelligence

PDF.LEGAL

Citation-anchored retrieval across transcripts, depositions, and filings — to the line.

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Trial Modeling

VerdictPilot

Juror profiles, voir dire scenarios, and verdict risk modeling for litigation teams.

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Appellate Drafting

COAPP

C.A.R. 32-compliant Colorado opening briefs with verified citations and risk flags.

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The method behind the Academy

Chain of Truth — Digital Evidence and the Future of Proof

A 308-page scholarly guide by faculty member Deniss Gladkihs on following digital evidence from event to courtroom decision. Its sixteen-question audit, and its view of competence as something that has to be kept current, shape how we teach and how we certify.

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Faculty

Educators, lawyers, and AI builders.

Meet the faculty →
Daniel J. Schendzielos
Academic Director

Daniel J. Schendzielos, J.D., Ph.D.

Creator of the Delegated Cognition doctrine developed in his books · trial practice, professional responsibility & AI governance.
Deniss Gladkihs
Software Architect & Forensics Lead

Deniss Gladkihs

Architect of the Lawnova platforms · digital forensics & AI authenticity.
Catherine Afshar
Director, Student Affairs

Catherine Afshar

Enrollment & cohort delivery.
Responsible-Use Oversight

Gloria Maria Soto

Legal-practice alignment & policy.
For Law Firms & Legal Departments

AI adoption your partners can govern.

Cohort training, firm playbooks, policy templates, admin dashboards, and SSO-enabled labs. Close the gap between AI adoption and AI governance — with standardization your firm can audit.

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Firm Starter · 15 seats$7,500
Practice-Group Accelerator · 30 seats$18,000
Enterprise Partnership · SSO$40k+
Enrollment Open · July 2026 Cohort

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Questions? Call (970) 423-2818 · admissions@lawnova.org

Lawnova Academy

Where legal rigor meets AI fluency.

Faculty-led certificates that pair the discipline of legal practice with hands-on command of AI — studied entirely online.

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