BUILD YOUR EXPERTISE IN AI
The future of arbitration practice
AI BOOTCAMP SERIES
Artificial intelligence is already reshaping international arbitration, from research and drafting to document analysis, case preparation and team management. The question is no longer whether AI will affect your practice, but how to use it without compromising judgement, reliability or professional trust.
The Delos AI Bootcamp series is a three-part training programme designed to equip arbitration professionals with the practical skills, judgement, and strategic insight needed to work effectively with artificial intelligence. Delivered in a hybrid format (Paris and online), the series combines expert-led sessions, live demonstrations, and highly interactive workshops to ensure participants can apply AI tools confidently in real-world legal contexts.
The programme is delivered in collaboration with Jus Mundi, contributing practical perspectives on AI-enabled legal research.
Each bootcamp is designed around the specific challenges and opportunities that AI presents at different stages of practice:
- Foundations – for junior lawyers and early-career practitioners
- Growth – for associates and mid-career practitioners
- Leadership – for partners, counsel and arbitrators
Explore each programme in detail below.
FOUNDATIONS BOOTCAMP
Stand out where AI falls short
Overview
This programme builds strong foundations for using AI in legal work, while helping participants develop the reliability and professional habits that make junior lawyers valuable and accelerate their progression. It combines practical instruction with hands-on exercises to strengthen understanding and efficiency, and to build skills that remain valuable as AI capabilities evolve.
Who should attend
Designed for junior lawyers and early-career practitioners seeking to build confidence using AI in day-to-day legal tasks, improve the reliability of their work, and accelerate their development as trusted members of a team, while maintaining independence of thought.
Modules
- Working Smarter: AI for High-Value Juniors – Learn how to use AI tools to accelerate your understanding of cases, develop ways of working that support faster learning without becoming dependent on AI, and turn early-stage ideas into clear, structured internal work.
- Becoming a Reliable Researcher with AI – Develop techniques to understand the limits of AI-assisted work, verify outputs, interpret documents critically, and apply legal reasoning, producing work that supervisors can rely on.
- Standing Out: the Long Game – Build long-term capabilities that go beyond tools, including judgement, continuous learning, a personal knowledge base of arguments, structures and precedents, and a visible professional profile.
- Rewrite Your CV and Profile to Signal Added Value – Translate AI-enabled skills into a compelling professional narrative, with practical guidance and small-group feedback on individual profiles.
Dates & format
Saturday 18 July | Half-day programme (morning to early afternoon)
Paris & Online | Limited places in-person and online
Refreshments
Breakfast, coffee breaks, and lunch are provided.
GROWTH BOOTCAMP
Advance faster with AI
Overview
This programme helps associates integrate AI into more complex workflows, produce higher-quality work, and take greater ownership across matters. It combines practical instruction with hands-on exercises to strengthen drafting, research and matter management, while developing the judgement and capabilities expected at the next level and accelerating progression towards promotion.
Who should attend
Designed for associates and mid-career practitioners seeking to take greater ownership across matters, produce work at the next level, and accelerate their progression towards more senior roles.
Modules
- AI and Arbitration: What Is Actually Changing – Understand how AI is reshaping legal work, what is expected in practice, and where AI adds value – and where it does not.
- Drafting Better, Faster: Pleadings and Written Work Products – Learn how to use AI to produce structured drafts, adapting tone across contexts to deliver reliable work products.
- Matter Management: Owning Workstreams with AI – Use AI to build chronologies, structure issues, and manage documents and deliverables, turning complex files into clear, actionable workstreams.
- Research, Analysis, and Judgement – Use AI to accelerate research and analysis, test arguments, and verify sources, while exercising judgement on when to rely on it.
- Delegation and Leverage: Working with Juniors – Learn how to delegate AI-assisted tasks effectively and develop junior team members, maintaining quality and leverage through effective review.
- Visibility, BD and Career Progression – Use AI to prepare for pitches, track clients and sectors, and produce thought leadership to build visibility and accelerate progression.
- Risks and Reputation: When AI Harms Careers – Identify common pitfalls and understand how AI misuse can affect professional credibility and trust.
- Your Next 12 Months: Personal AI Strategy – Build a practical roadmap for implementing AI in your work, with clear priorities and next steps.
Dates & format
Tuesday 21 July | Full-day programme (morning to early evening)
Paris & Online | Limited places in-person and online
Refreshments
Breakfast, coffee breaks, and lunch are provided. The day will close with an informal reception.
LEADERSHIP BOOTCAMP
Strategy and competitive advantage with AI
Overview
This advanced programme explores how AI is reshaping arbitration at a strategic level, from client expectations and pricing to team structure and competitive positioning. Participants engage with real-world scenarios to understand risks and opportunities, and make informed decisions about AI adoption, use and positioning in an evolving market.
Who should attend
Designed for partners, counsel, arbitrators and senior practitioners seeking to understand how AI is reshaping client expectations, team structures and competitive positioning, and to make informed decisions about its adoption, use and strategic implications.
Modules
- AI and Arbitration: What Is Changing – Analyse the broader impact of AI on arbitration practice and emerging risks.
- AI in Practice: Tools, Workflows, and Competitive Advantage – Explore how AI is applied in live matters and how to build effective workflows.
- Legal Risk and Professional Responsibility – Understand key issues around confidentiality, accuracy, and reliance on AI.
- Delegation, Teams, and Roles – Rethink team structures, supervision, and allocation of work in an AI-enabled environment.
- AI as a Source of Disputes – Examine new types of disputes arising from AI use and their implications.
- Clients Using AI – Understand how sophisticated clients are using AI and how expectations are evolving.
- Billing, Value, and Economics – Assess the impact of AI on pricing, efficiency, and law firm economics.
- Building Your AI Strategy – Translate insights into a clear, actionable strategy for implementation.
Dates & format
Thursday 23 July | Full-day programme (morning to early evening)
Paris & Online | Limited places in-person and online
Refreshments
Breakfast, coffee breaks, and lunch are provided. The day will close with an informal reception.
APPLY & COURSE FEES
COURSE FEES
The courses fees are as follows:
- Foundations: EUR 150 excl. VAT. for in-person / EUR 90 excl. VAT for online
- Growth: EUR 450 excl. VAT. for in-person / EUR 225 excl. VAT for online
- Leadership: EUR 750 excl. VAT. for in-person / EUR 350 excl. VAT for online
Delos full annual members receive a 10% discount. The course capacity is strictly limited to ensure that sessions are as interactive and lively as possible.
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ADDITIONAL NOTES
If you consider that you have a special needs situation, you can raise this with Delos confidentially by writing to bootcamps@delosdr.org and apply for a discount or sponsorship. Please note that, once payment has been made, no refund will be processed; but the registration can be transferred to another participant with Delos's agreement.
About VAT: the Bootcamps are subject to the VAT rules applicable in France. The rate is 20% and gets applied only if you are participating in person or remotely from France.
