Law
Lawyer
Key facts
Employment in this job is holding up or growing in the United States, but it is highly exposed to AI. AI is already changing legal research and drafting, without replacing advice or advocacy. Working well with AI is becoming an asset.
The job
Advises and represents individuals or companies: drafting deeds and contracts, negotiating, pleading in court.
48 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- administrative law lawyer
- advocate
- agricultural lawyer
- attorney
- bank and capital market lawyer
- barrister
- building lawyer
- building and construction dispute lawyer
- business lawyer
- business solicitor
- commercial and company lawyer
- company solicitor
- copyright and media lawyer
- corporate advocate
- corporate attorney
- corporate counsel
- corporate lawyer
- corporate solicitor
- corporation lawyer
- counsellor
- crown prosecutor
- employment lawyer
- family law lawyer
- financial lawyer
- fiscal lawyer
- industrial property lawyer
- information technology lawyer
- inheritance law lawyer
- insurance lawyers
- intellectual property lawyer
- international business law lawyer
- labour lawyer
- lawyer
- medical lawyer
- patent law lawyer
- patent lawyer
- personal law lawyer
- procurement law lawyer
- property law attorney
- property law lawyer
- prosecuting attorney
- prosecutor
- prosecutor assistant
- public prosecutor
- social law lawyer
- state attorney
- trademark lawyer
- traffic law lawyer
Training
Regulated profession: master en droit, puis examen d'entrée à l'école d'avocats et CAPA.
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Gauges
No US indicator measures hiring difficulty job by job: this gauge stays empty. How countries are compared
Sources
In France, the Métiers 2030 projections by Dares and France Stratégie expect +19% employment between 2019 and 2030 for legal professionals (excluding in-house counsel), one of the largest increases. That projection dates from 2022, before the rise of generative AI. The ILO rates lawyers at minimal exposure to generative AI; the BLS instead puts them in its highest exposure category, while projecting +4.7% jobs by 2035.
- Jobs in 2030: projections by occupational family (summary table)Dares and France Stratégie · March 2022 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.