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Paralegals and Legal Assistants

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Assist lawyers by investigating facts, preparing legal documents, or researching legal precedent. Conduct research to support a legal proceeding, to formulate a defense, or to initiate legal action.

10 main tasks · most important first

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01Prepare affidavits or other documents, such as legal correspondence, and organize and maintain documents in paper or electronic filing system.AI could speed this up a lot
02Prepare, edit, or review legal documents, including legislation, briefs, pleadings, appeals, wills, contracts, and real estate closing statements.No rating yet
03Investigate facts and law of cases and search pertinent sources, such as public records and internet sources, to determine causes of action and to prepare cases.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
04Prepare for trial by performing tasks such as organizing exhibits.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
05Meet with clients and other professionals to discuss details of cases.Mostly human for now
06Gather and analyze research data, such as statutes, decisions, and legal articles, codes, and documents.People already use AI for this at work
07File pleadings with court clerks.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
08Direct and coordinate law office activity, including delivery of subpoenas.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
09Call upon witnesses to testify at hearings.Mostly human for now
10Arbitrate disputes between parties and assist in the real estate closing process, such as by reviewing title searches.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.

Checked O*NET 31.0, August 2026Corrections

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Where these numbers come from

O*NET 31.0 Database, US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), 2026-08. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (observed exposure), Anthropic, 2026-03-05. Licence: CC BY.

Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations (v1.1), Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025-12. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

GPTs are GPTs: labor market impact potential of LLMs (Science, 2024), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023. Licence: MIT.

What work can robots do? (robot exposure index), Anthropic, 2026-09-30. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

This page includes information from the O*NET® 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. We have modified this information; USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed or tested these modifications. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. How the Job Check works.

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