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Lawyers

Legal SOC 23-1011 ~0.8M US jobs Median $145,760
OFI
14.8
transformation pressure

Drafting and research are heavily GPT-exposed, but high trust requirements, professional licensure, courtroom advocacy, and liability keep the human/augment share dominant. — Eloundou et al. 2023; AIOE

Task transformation under adoption

Share of tasks automated / augmented / human, projected via Bass-diffusion adoption. Scenario, not a prediction.

Exposure profile

Representative tasks

  • Advise clients on law
  • Draft contracts and briefs
  • Represent clients in court
  • Negotiate settlements
  • Research precedent

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We model task transformation, not job loss. OFI and its projections are scenario estimates grounded in published AI-exposure frameworks — model outputs, not predictions of employment outcomes.