Will AI replace Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants?
Estimated risk score: 89 out of 100
Very high replacement risk
Estimate from published task research, not reviewed by a person · how we estimate
Within about 19 points for 4 in 5 of the jobs we checked (70 to 100).
For the occupation as a whole, from ratings of its 14 O*NET tasks published in 2023 and calibrated to our hand scores. A specialty inside it can sit higher or lower.
O*NET-SOC 43-6012.00 · Office and Administrative Support
Tasks rated in 2023 as ones AI could do or speed up
Tasks a GPT-4-class model could do, or do in half the time or less: 12 of its 14 rated tasks; the first 6 are shown. In O*NET’s words.
- Make photocopies of correspondence, documents, and other printed matter.
- Complete various forms, such as accident reports, trial and courtroom requests, and applications for clients.
- Draft and type office memos.
- Mail, fax, or arrange for delivery of legal correspondence to clients, witnesses, and court officials.
- Prepare, proofread, or process legal documents, such as summonses, subpoenas, complaints, appeals, motions, or pretrial agreements.
- Prepare and distribute invoices to bill clients or pay account expenses.
Tasks rated in 2023 as not sped up by AI
Tasks such a model was rated as not speeding up or taking over: 0 of its 14 rated tasks. In O*NET’s words.
None of its rated tasks.
What the job is
Perform secretarial duties using legal terminology, procedures, and documents. Prepare legal papers and correspondence, such as summonses, complaints, motions, and subpoenas. May also assist with legal research.
Also called: Legal Secretary, Legal Practice Assistant, Legal Office Support Assistant, Legal Administrative Assistant (Legal Admin Assistant), Legal Admin, Law Secretary, Legal Coordinator, Paralegal Secretary.
Closest jobs we score by hand
In the same field (Office and Administrative Support). Different jobs, each scored by a person.
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Source. This site includes information from the O*NET 30.1 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. (O*NET, CC BY 4.0.) Task ratings: Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock (2023), “GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models”, data used under the MIT licence (licence texts). Our change: we averaged the ratings over this occupation’s tasks and calibrated them to our 0–100 scale. It is not a prediction about any one person and not career advice. Disagree? Write to hello@yourstopwashit.com. How we estimate