Paralegals & Legal Assistants
Legal
SOC 23-2011
~0.4M US jobs
Median $60,970
OFI
28.5
transformation pressure
Document drafting and research are top GPT-exposed tasks (Eloundou et al.), but unauthorized-practice rules and attorney accountability cap full automation, favoring augmentation. — 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
- Conduct legal research
- Draft and review documents
- Summarize case law
- Organize case files
- Prepare discovery materials
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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.