Job Check
Judicial Law Clerks
Assist judges in court or by conducting research or preparing legal documents.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Prepare briefs, legal memoranda, or statements of issues involved in cases, including appropriate suggestions or recommendations.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Research laws, court decisions, documents, opinions, briefs, or other information related to cases before the court.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Draft or proofread judicial opinions, decisions, or citations.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Confer with judges concerning legal questions, construction of documents, or granting of orders.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Review complaints, petitions, motions, or pleadings that have been filed to determine issues involved or basis for relief.People already use AI for this at work
- 06Keep abreast of changes in the law and inform judges when cases are affected by such changes.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Attend court sessions to hear oral arguments or record necessary case information.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Review dockets of pending litigation to ensure adequate progress.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Communicate with counsel regarding case management or procedural requirements.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Respond to questions from judicial officers or court staff on general legal issues.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 loss17%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
52%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 20% 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 29% 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.