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Judicial Law Clerks
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects 2.8% more of these jobs by 2035, slower than the 3.5% average.
Legal work often runs on specialised, compliant AI tools that consumer Copilot data does not see, so this file probably understates how much AI touches it.
- Rank
- Joint #527 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- +2.8% All jobs: +3.5%
- Median US pay
- $64,920 a year, 2025
- People doing it
- 14,000 in the US, with about 1,500 openings a year
The work, 8 activities
The job description, marked up.
Every activity in this job, the biggest first. Tap a line for the evidence.
- deleAI does this
- +AIAI helps
- stetStill yours
Still yours: Record information about legal matters26%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Prepare legal or regulatory documents21%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Discuss legal matters with clients, disputants, or legal professionals or staff20%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Consult legal materials or public records18%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 748 conversations, and it got them there 81% of the time.
AI does this: Research laws, precedents, or other legal data9%
AI performed this in about 1 in 1,733 Copilot conversations and completed it 92% of the time.
Still yours: Direct legal activities6%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Supervise personnel activities1%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Perform court-related or other legal administrative activities1%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
2025 to 2035
Ten years from now.
For every 100 of these jobs in 2025, the BLS projects 103 in 2035. Across all US jobs, about 104.
About 1,500 openings a year, from growth and from people who retire or move on.
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Where your skills travel.
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How to read this file.
deleAI does this. In US Bing Copilot conversations from January to September 2024, AI itself performed the activity, completed it and made a real difference often enough to count.
+AIAI helps. People brought the activity to AI as their own goal, and it usually got them there.
stetStill yours. It barely shows up in AI use, AI rarely finishes it, or in this job it needs hands.
Shares are weighted by how much each activity matters in the job, using O*NET. Microsoft’s own AI applicability score for this job is 0.07, higher than 22% of jobs.
Doing an activity is not doing a job. The researchers behind this data warn against reading it as job loss, and so do we. It is US data; the shape of the work travels.
Legal work often runs on specialised, compliant AI tools that consumer Copilot data does not see, so this file probably understates how much AI touches it.
Sources: Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025) · O*NET OnLine, 23-1012 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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