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Paralegals and Legal Assistants
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Paralegals and Legal Assistants
Exposure
Window · adoption
4–9 yrs
until most of the change has landed
High adoption
In one line
AI now drafts first-pass documents, summarises discovery and pulls case law, while paralegals keep filings, clients and deadlines on track.
Inputs behind the score · scaled 0–100
Task applicability
11Observed usage
39Official exposure tier
70Labour-market trajectory
n/aPublished adoption rating
70What is driving it
- Generative drafting in practice software
- AI-assisted legal research
- Technology-assisted document review
- Record and deposition summarisation
- Client and court pressure on cost
- Verification and disclosure rules
Skills worth building
- Source verification
- E-discovery and review protocol design
- Court procedure and jurisdictional rules
- Prompting and tool configuration
- Client communication
- Data handling and confidentiality
Tools in the work now
Where the work moves
Full report
Scores are the CareerGuard Exposure Index v2: the same five inputs and weights for every role, so a gap of ten points means the same thing wherever it appears. How scores are built.