As generative AI continues to strengthen its seemingly permanent foothold in the legal industry, prompt engineering is quickly becoming a valued skill for the future of legal practice. Considered a science by some and an art by others, prompt engineering is the exercise of creating, curating and refining inputs to a generative AI application in order to achieve the ideal output.

In recent years, successful legal practitioners have been focused on gaining competency in a number of highly desired talents that go beyond traditional legal skills, and prompt engineering is quickly moving its way up that list.