Will AI replace a Paralegal?
Estimated risk score: 78 out of 100
High replacement risk
Estimate · how we score
Our take: Doc review is gone. The job stays only if you handle the in-court / in-person work.
Horizon: about 2 years. That is our estimate of how long until headcount in this role falls by 30% or more.
Median salary $60k a year · Legal
What AI already does well
- Document review and discovery production
- Form-document drafting and template work
- Legal research and case-law summarization
What keeps you valuable
A high score means many of today’s tasks in this role can be automated — not that you will lose your job. People in roles like yours stay valuable by moving toward the work AI is bad at. Build on these:
- Trial prep, client interviews, and witness coordination
- Court-filing logistics and procedural specialization
- Becoming a JD or domain-expert legal analyst
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The closest scores in Legal, then across all 41 jobs
How we score. Each score is our estimate, from 0 to 100, of how exposed a role is to AI replacement, calibrated against published research: Goldman Sachs on generative AI (2023), McKinsey’s State of AI surveys, Brynjolfsson and Mitchell (Science, 2017) and Frey and Osborne (2013; published 2017). It is not a prediction about any one person and not career advice. Disagree with a score? Write to hello@yourstopwashit.com. Read the methodology
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