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Court, Municipal, and License Clerks
Perform clerical duties for courts of law, municipalities, or governmental licensing agencies and bureaus. May prepare docket of cases to be called; secure information for judges and court; prepare draft agendas or bylaws for town or city council; answer official correspondence; keep fiscal records and accounts; issue licenses or permits; and record data, administer tests, or collect fees.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Plan or direct the maintenance, filing, safekeeping, or computerization of all municipal documents.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Examine legal documents submitted to courts for adherence to laws or court procedures.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Record case dispositions, court orders, or arrangements made for payment of court fees.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Answer inquiries from the general public regarding judicial procedures, court appearances, trial dates, adjournments, outstanding warrants, summonses, subpoenas, witness fees, or payment of fines.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Perform general office duties, such as taking or transcribing dictation, typing or proofreading correspondence, distributing or filing official forms, or scheduling appointments.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Question applicants to obtain required information, such as name, address, or age, and record data on prescribed forms.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Instruct parties about timing of court appearances.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Perform administrative tasks, such as answering telephone calls, filing court documents, or maintaining office supplies or equipment.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Respond to requests for information from the public, other municipalities, state officials, or state and federal legislative offices.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Coordinate or maintain office tracking systems for correspondence or follow-up actions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss10%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
70%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 79% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 53% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.