Lawyers
LegalAI Impact Assessment
This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.
Lawyers with an AI automation risk score of 29%. Analysis includes 22 core tasks.
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Key Tasks
Examine legal data to determine advisability of defending or prosecuting lawsuit.
Search for and examine public and other legal records to write opinions or establish ownership.
Confer with colleagues with specialties in appropriate areas of legal issue to establish and verify bases for legal proceedings.
Evaluate findings and develop strategies and arguments in preparation for presentation of cases.
Gather evidence to formulate defense or to initiate legal actions by such means as interviewing clients and witnesses to ascertain the facts of a case.
Negotiate settlements of civil disputes.
Negotiate contractual agreements.
Present and summarize cases to judges and juries.
Upskilling Courses
Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data