Lawyers

Most exposed tasks

Highest structured exposure values in this role’s task mix — the work AI systems can already do most of.

• Prepare legal briefs and opinions, and file appeals in state and federal courts of appeal.71
• Search for and examine public and other legal records to write opinions or establish ownership.66
• Prepare, draft, and review legal documents, such as wills, deeds, patent applications, mortgages, leases, and contracts.60

Augmentable tasks

Work where AI assists rather than replaces — the productivity frontier of this role.

• Examine legal data to determine advisability of defending or prosecuting lawsuit.48
• Study Constitution, statutes, decisions, regulations, and ordinances of quasi-judicial bodies to determine ramifications for cases.48
• Confer with colleagues with specialties in appropriate areas of legal issue to establish and verify bases for legal proceedings.47

Most durable tasks

Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.

• Supervise legal assistants.31
• Advise clients concerning business transactions, claim liability, advisability of prosecuting or defending lawsuits, or legal rights and obligations.32
• Probate wills and represent and advise executors and administrators of estates.32

Task exposure values and classifications come from the versioned data release — they are structured data, not model output. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.

What this means

A score of 45 puts Lawyers in the second quartile of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this level is about the mix: 3 of 20 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 12 augmentable, and 5 durable. The useful question isn’t “will AI take this job” — it’s which tasks go first, which get faster, and where to reposition time. That’s what the personalized report maps against your actual week.

One next move: adopt AI deliberately on the augmentable tasks and build visible evidence of the durable ones.

Lower-exposure adjacent roles

No adjacent role in the current data release is at least 10 points lower with ≥50% skill overlap — we don’t label anything “safer” unless the data supports it.

Labor-market context

• $159,670median wage
• 754,500employed
• 31,500annual openings
• +4.2%projected growth

Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.

Related roles

Adjacent by skills or family — no exposure claim implied.

• Judicial Law Clerks 63
• Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers 58
• Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators 51
• Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates 52
• Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators 74
• Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts 60

FAQ — Lawyers

What does a score of 45 mean for a Lawyers?

It means that, weighted across the 20 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 45 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the second quartile of analyzed occupations. It measures task exposure to current and near-term AI capabilities, not the probability of losing a job.

Which tasks in this role are most exposed to AI?

The highest-exposure tasks are: Prepare legal briefs and opinions, and file appeals in state and federal courts of appeal; Search for and examine public and other legal records to write opinions or establish ownership; Prepare, draft, and review legal documents, such as wills, deeds, patent applications, mortgages, leases, and contracts. Exposure is scored per task from structured data, not generated by a language model.

Which parts of this job are most durable?

The most durable responsibilities are: Supervise legal assistants; Advise clients concerning business transactions, claim liability, advisability of prosecuting or defending lawsuits, or legal rights and obligations; Probate wills and represent and advise executors and administrators of estates. Durable tasks typically depend on judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability.

Is this score personalized to me?

No — this page shows the occupation-level baseline. Two people with the same title often do different work. The $9 personalized report recalculates the score from the tasks you actually do and builds a concrete 7/30/90-day plan around them.