Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has launched its AI Decathlon, marking the next step in building practical and responsible AI skills across the firm. The program was recently profiled in Law360, underscoring growing interest in how the firm is approaching hands-on AI training.

The Decathlon includes ten sessions focused on key skills such as spotting hallucinations, testing outputs, speeding up research, and drafting building blocks. Each session includes a hands-on team challenge that helps participants build fluency with the firm’s range of AI tools and better understand AI’s strengths and limitations for legal work. The program, which starts in January, is just one piece of a broader effort – including existing trainings, practice-area-specific AI “office hours,” and dissemination of lessons learned from the firm’s work supporting clients as they adopt AI – to shift mindsets and build new habits, so the whole firm can use AI responsibly and effectively.

The program is designed and led by the Applied AI Team in collaboration with the firm’s Data Strategy & Security group and practice-area AI task force members. This partnership between technologists and lawyers is central to the firm’s approach to AI. Drawing on both client matters and internal experience, the team identifies useful applications and risks and uses those insights to shape practical training aligned with how modern legal work gets done.