Professionals · code 2619
Legal professionals not elsewhere classified
AI can draft the contract. A mediator still has to get both sides to agree.
Property transfers, legal advice and drafting contracts are mostly out of AI's reach. Holding inquests into unexplained deaths it barely touches.
What they actually do (and what else they get called)
This unit group covers legal professionals not classified elsewhere in Minor Group 261: Legal Professionals. For instance, the group includes those who perform legal functions other than pleading or prosecuting cases or presiding over judicial proceedings. In such cases tasks would include - (a) giving advice on legal aspects of various personal, business and administrative problems; (b) drawing up legal documents and contracts; (c) arranging property transfers; (d) determining, by inquest, the causes of any death not obviously due to natural causes. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Coroner - Jurist (except lawyer or judge) - Notary
- human rights officer
- legal consultant
- notary
- ombudsman
- mediator
- election observer
- legislative drafter
- regulatory affairs manager
- coroner
- court jury coordinator
Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.
63 / 100
Mostly holds up against AI
AI can take a few chores off your plate, but most of the day is still yours.
Not the odds you keep your job. It's how much of the everyday work still needs a person, out of 100.
The ILO's official verdict: Minimal Exposure
304 of 427 for holding up against AI
Not quite your week? Make it yours ↓
Why this score?
The ILO rated each of this job's 4 tasks for how much of it AI could do. They average 37.3 out of 100, so it holds up at 100 − 37.3 = 62.7.
That's the whole sum. No black box, no secret sauce: you can check it against the ILO's study. ILO group “Minimal Exposure”: A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't.
This job rates 10.2 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.
from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.8-observed-use
Man v Bot · compare
Who holds up better?
Legal professionals not elsewhere classified 63
vGo on, try your partner's job. Or your sibling's. We won't tell.
Man v Bot
Where the bot helps, and where the human wins
Bot
What AI takes
The routine stuff. You may not miss it.
- Drafting legal documents and contracts.
- Property transfer paperwork.
- Legal information for clients.
Man
What people still do better
Judgement, trust and skilled hands. Hard to download.
- Mediating disputes.
- Inquests and investigations.
- Judgement and trust.
Both
What's arriving
New work that only exists because the AI does.
- Online dispute resolution.
- Digital signatures and records.
- Checking AI-drafted documents.
Written by a human, from the ILO's task ratings below. Yes, we see the irony. Read it as one person's take.
Meet your two rivals
They're not the same machine. AI software can only reach the parts of a job done on a screen or in words. A chatbot can't climb a ladder. A robot might, one day, if it doesn't fall off.
The AI
Lives in a screen. Never had to fix a boiler.
Threat level: Medium
37 could do without you
It could take over some of the work, and help with more. It could help with 64 of 100.
The robot
The wildcard. Has hands, still working out stairs.
How much it matters here: Lower
10 how hands-on
Not much of this job needs hands, so the robot can sit this one out.
So could a robot do the physical part?
Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.
Robots hate fiddly work in awkward spaces. On that measure, this job scores 4 out of 100. The higher it is, the longer the robot waits.
hands-on
and cramped
Kind of hands-on work Less than half hands-on
The small print
They aren't a robot score, and nothing on this page is. Nobody measures how far robots have got well enough to put a number on it. These are the closest thing we have: how hands-on the job is, and how much fiddly, cramped work it takes, which is what Frey and Osborne found hardest for machines.
From O*NET, matched to one US job .
finger skill 3.6 · hand skill 0 · cramped spaces 8.8 · averaged · rule: hands-on under 50
estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.8-observed-use measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement
The job, task by task
Every job is really a bundle of tasks. Here's this one unpacked, with how much of each AI could do, out of 100. The score is the average, and averages can hide a lot.
AI's favourite task here scores 45, against an average of 37. The bigger the gap, the more lopsided the job: some of it wide open to AI, some of it barely touched.
- 45
Arranging property transfers
Low - 40
Giving advice on legal aspects of various personal, business and administrative problems
Low - 40
Drawing up legal documents and contracts
Low - 24
Determining, by inquest, the causes of any death not obviously due to natural causes.
Very Low
4 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's
from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.8-observed-use
New · the weekly task audit
Your week, your score
The score above assumes notaries, mediators and legal consultants spend the same time on every task. You don't. Slide each task to how much of your week it takes, and we'll re-weight the same ILO ratings to fit your job.
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Your score
63 / 100
Same as the job as a whole, so far.
Move the sliders to make it yours.
The job as a whole: 63 / 100
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Sidekick or replacement?
A tool that makes you faster is a very different thing from one that does the task while you watch. Jobs and Skills Australia measured the two separately, which is handy.
- AI helps you
- 64
- AI does it for you
- 37
Sidekick wins, by 27 points.
How good a match is this?
2 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.
estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.8-observed-use matched to Australian jobs 2249, 2712
So, should notaries, mediators and legal consultants be worried?
Short answer: not much. Some of the chores will change, and good riddance.
Parts of it are changing. Property transfers, legal advice and drafting documents rate Low; investigating deaths at inquests rates Very Low. AI drafting and legal tools will take on routine documents; mediation and judgement stay human.
Worth remembering: we score tasks, not jobs. When AI takes on a task, the job usually reshuffles around it rather than vanishing.
How are the neighbours doing?
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