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Technicians and associate professionals · code 3342

Legal secretaries

Legal secretaries apply specialized knowledge of legal terminology and procedures in providing support to legal professionals with communication, documentation and internal managerial coordination activities, in law offices, legal departments of large firms and governments. Tasks include - (a) preparing and processing legal documents and papers, such as deeds, wills, affidavits and briefs; (b) reviewing and proofreading documents and correspondence to ensure compliance with legal procedures; (c) mailing, faxing or arranging for delivery of legal correspondence to clients, witnesses and court officials; (d) organizing and maintaining documents, case files and law libraries; (e) screening requests for meetings, scheduling and organizing meetings; (f) assisting in the preparation of budgets, monitoring of expenditures, drafting of contracts and purchasing or acquisition orders; (g) supervising the work of office support workers. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Legal practice manager - Legal secretary Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Legal assistant - 3411

Most of the tasks are affected. It ranks 396 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • civil registrar
  • legal administrative assistant

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

45
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 3

AI could take on 55 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 55 = 45

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

25.2
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

15.7
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 26.9 · hand skill 16 · cramped spaces 4.2 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

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.

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 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 25.2 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.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 73.5, while the average is 55. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 73.5

    Screening requests for meetings, and scheduling and organizing meetings

    Medium
  2. 63.3

    Reviewing and proofreading documents and correspondence to ensure compliance with legal procedures

    Medium
  3. 60

    Preparing and processing legal documents and papers, such as deeds, wills, affidavits and briefs

    Medium
  4. 57.5

    Organizing and maintaining documents, case files and law libraries

    Medium
  5. 51

    Mailing, faxing or arranging for delivery of legal correspondence to clients, witnesses and court officials

    Medium
  6. 46

    Assisting in the preparation of budgets, monitoring of expenditures, drafting of contracts and purchasing or acquisition orders

    Low
  7. 34

    Supervising the work of office support workers.

    Low

7 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

2 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
69.5
AI does it for you
54.5

Helping wins by 15 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 5122, 5212

Compared with similar jobs

There are 82 jobs in the “Technicians and associate professionals” group, averaging 65.6. This one is below that.