Law
Paralegal / legal assistant
Key facts
Employment in this job is holding up or growing in the United States, but it is highly exposed to AI. Drafting standard documents is what generative AI does best: the job is refocusing on checking and case follow-up. Working well with AI is becoming an asset.
The job
Prepares case files and drafts routine legal documents for lawyers, notaries or a company's legal department.
62 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- asset protection officer
- bailiff
- case administrator
- conveyance clerk
- conveyance law clerk
- conveyancer
- conveyancing clerk
- corporate law assistant
- corporate legal assistant
- court administation officer
- court administration officer
- court administrative officer
- court administrator
- court adminstrative officer
- court bailiff
- court clerk
- court enforcement officer
- court registrar
- court security officer
- court usher
- crown court clerk
- debt collector
- domestic abuse case administrator
- enforcement agent
- her majesty's court bailiff
- inspector
- judicial assistant
- judicial clerk
- judicial law clerk
- judiciary court clerk
- jury bailiff
- law clerk
- legal administation officer
- legal aide
- legal assistant
- legal case administrator
- legal executive
- legal secretary
- loss prevention agent
- loss prevention officer
- paralegal
- paralegal clerk
- paralegal specialist
- PI
- prison case administrator
- private detective
- private dick
- private eye
- private investigator
- probation case administrator
- property law clerk
- public administration legal assistant
- retail loss investigator
- SD
- senior court clerk
- sleuth
- store detective
- tribunal administration officer
- tribunal administrative officer
- tribunals officer
- usher
- warrant server
Training
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Sources
The BLS expects paralegals and legal assistants in the United States to stay almost flat between 2025 and 2035 (404,900 then 403,800 jobs) and rates them as highly exposed to AI. The ILO places legal associate professionals in its first gradient of exposure to generative AI.
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
Checked on 27 October 2026.