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Technicians and associate professionals · code 3411

Legal and related associate professionals

Legal and related associate professionals perform support functions in courts of law or in law offices, provide services related to such legal matters as insurance contracts, the transferring of property and the granting of loans and other financial transactions, or conduct investigations for clients. Tasks include - (a) documenting court proceedings and judgements; (b) serving statements of claims, summonses, warrants, subpoenas and other court orders; (c) maintaining order in court and hearing rooms; (d) preparing legal documents including trial briefs, pleadings, appeals, wills and contracts, and preparing papers summarizing legal positions or setting out conditions of loans or insurance; (e) investigating facts, assembling evidence and researching relevant statutes, decisions and other legal documents to prepare cases; (f) advising clients on legal matters; (g) examining documentation such as mortgages, liens, judgements, easements, contracts and maps in order to verify properties’ legal descriptions and ownership; (h) preparing documents relating to transfer of real estate, stocks or other matters requiring formal registration; (i) investigating possible cases of theft of goods, money or information from business establishments and of other possible cases of unlawful behaviour by customers or employees; (j) investigating establishments or the circumstances and behaviour of persons on behalf of clients. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Bailiff - Judge’s clerk - Conveyancing clerk - Court clerk - Justice of the peace - Law clerk - Legal assistant - Paralegal - Private detective - Title searcher Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Lawyer - 2611 - Judge - 2612 - Notary - 2619 - Legal secretary - 3342

The mildest of the ILO’s four “exposed” groups. It ranks 324 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • case administrator
  • court administrative officer
  • court bailiff
  • court clerk
  • conveyance clerk
  • legal assistant
  • private detective
  • court enforcement officer

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

60.9
Holds up
against AI Exposed: Gradient 1

AI could take on 39.1 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 39.1 = 60.9

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, averaged across 6 US jobs

15.3
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 22 · hand skill 15.8 · cramped spaces 8.2 · 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 60.5, while the average is 39.1. 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. 60.5

    Preparing documents relating to transfer of real estate, stocks or other matters requiring formal registration

    Medium
  2. 56

    Preparing legal documents including trial briefs, pleadings, appeals, wills and contracts and preparing, papers summarizing legal positions or setting out conditions of loans or insurance

    Medium
  3. 45.5

    Documenting court proceedings and judgements

    Low
  4. 43.5

    Serving statements of claims, summonses, warrants, subpoenas and other court orders

    Low
  5. 40

    Investigating facts, assembling evidence and researching relevant statutes, decisions and other legal documents to prepare cases

    Low
  6. 39

    Examining documentation such as mortgages, liens, judgements, easements, contracts and maps in order to verify properties’ legal descriptions and ownership

    Low
  7. 37.5

    Advising clients on legal matters

    Low
  8. 29.5

    Investigating establishments or the circumstances and behaviour of persons on behalf of clients.

    Low
  9. 20

    Maintaining order in court and hearing rooms

    Very Low
  10. 19.3

    Investigating possible cases of theft of goods, money or information from business establishments and of other possible cases of unlawful behaviour by customers or employees

    Very Low

10 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.

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

AI helps you
63.3
AI does it for you
39.7

Helping wins by 23.6 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 4422, 5991, 5992

Compared with similar jobs

There are 82 jobs in the “Technicians and associate professionals” group, averaging 65.4. This one is below that.

A closer look

There's a written profile for this job, with notes on what changes and what stays human.