Prepare legal documents.

Prepare legal documents. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 10 occupations and seen in 20 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Prepare legal or regulatory documents. in Documenting/Recording Information .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 19 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 17 (89%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 6 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.010% per task.

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Prepare briefs, legal memoranda, or statements of issues involved in cases, including appropriate suggestions or recommendations. · Judicial Law Clerks · importance 4.8 · exposure with tools
• Draft or proofread judicial opinions, decisions, or citations. · Judicial Law Clerks · importance 4.8 · direct LLM exposure
• Type court orders for judges. · Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners · importance 4.7 · direct LLM exposure
• Prepare reports describing any title encumbrances encountered during searching activities and outlining actions needed to clear titles. · Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers · importance 4.6 · exposure with tools
• Copy or summarize recorded documents, such as mortgages, trust deeds, and contracts, that affect property titles. · Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers · importance 4.5 · direct LLM exposure
• Prepare ordinances, resolutions, or proclamations so that they can be executed, recorded, archived, or distributed. · Court, Municipal, and License Clerks · importance 4.5 · direct LLM exposure
• Verify accuracy and completeness of land-related documents accepted for registration, preparing rejection notices when documents are not acceptable. · Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers · importance 4.5 · exposure with tools
• Prepare documents recording the outcomes of court proceedings. · Court, Municipal, and License Clerks · importance 4.4 · direct LLM exposure
• Prepare lists of all legal instruments applying to a specific piece of land and the buildings on it. · Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers · importance 4.4 · exposure with tools
• Prepare affidavits or other documents, such as legal correspondence, and organize and maintain documents in paper or electronic filing system. · Paralegals and Legal Assistants · importance 4.4 · direct LLM exposure
• Prepare and issue orders of the court, such as probation orders, release documentation, sentencing information, or summonses. · Court, Municipal, and License Clerks · importance 4.4 · direct LLM exposure
• Prepare and issue title commitments and title insurance policies, based on information compiled from title searches. · Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Prepare, proofread, or process legal documents, such as summonses, subpoenas, complaints, appeals, motions, or pretrial agreements. · Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants · importance 4.3 · direct LLM exposure
• Prepare, draft, and review legal documents, such as wills, deeds, patent applications, mortgages, leases, and contracts. · Lawyers · importance 4.2 · exposure with tools
• Prepare legal briefs and opinions, and file appeals in state and federal courts of appeal. · Lawyers · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Issue subpoenas or administer oaths to prepare for formal hearings. · Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators · importance 3.8 · no direct exposure
• Issue subpoenas and administer oaths in preparation for formal hearings. · Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers · importance 3.8 · no direct exposure
• Prepare settlement agreements for disputants to sign. · Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators · importance 3.4 · exposure with tools
• Maintain judges' law libraries by assembling or updating appropriate documents. · Judicial Law Clerks · importance 2.3 · exposure with tools
• Prepare, edit, or review legal documents, including legislation, briefs, pleadings, appeals, wills, contracts, and real estate closing statements. · 23-2011.00

Occupations that perform this

• Judicial Law Clerks
• Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners
• Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers
• Court, Municipal, and License Clerks
• Paralegals and Legal Assistants
• Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
• Lawyers
• Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators
• Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers
• 23-2011.00

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-prepare-legal-documents,
  title  = {Prepare legal documents.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/prepare-legal-documents}
}