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.