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Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
Perform secretarial duties using legal terminology, procedures, and documents. Prepare legal papers and correspondence, such as summonses, complaints, motions, and subpoenas. May also assist with legal research.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Organize and maintain law libraries, documents, and case files.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Mail, fax, or arrange for delivery of legal correspondence to clients, witnesses, and court officials.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Prepare and distribute invoices to bill clients or pay account expenses.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Prepare, proofread, or process legal documents, such as summonses, subpoenas, complaints, appeals, motions, or pretrial agreements.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Make photocopies of correspondence, documents, and other printed matter.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Assist attorneys in collecting information such as employment, medical, and other records.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Complete various forms, such as accident reports, trial and courtroom requests, and applications for clients.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Receive and place telephone calls.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Schedule and make appointments.People already use AI for this at work
- 10Draft and type office memos.AI could speed this up a lot
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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.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 70% 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 56% 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.