Provide legal advice to clients.

Provide legal advice to clients. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 3 occupations and seen in 6 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Advise others on legal or regulatory matters. in Providing Consultation and Advice to Others .

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 6 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 6 (100%) 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 4 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.021% 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.

• Interpret laws, rulings and regulations for individuals and businesses. · Lawyers · importance 4.5 · exposure with tools
• Recommend the acceptance or rejection of claims or compromise settlements according to laws, regulations, policies, and precedent decisions. · Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Advise clients concerning business transactions, claim liability, advisability of prosecuting or defending lawsuits, or legal rights and obligations. · Lawyers · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Explain to claimants how they can appeal rulings that go against them. · Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers · importance 4.2 · direct LLM exposure
• Probate wills and represent and advise executors and administrators of estates. · Lawyers · importance 3.9 · exposure with tools
• Recommend acceptance or rejection of compromise settlement offers. · Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators · importance 3.6 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Lawyers
• Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers
• Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators

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.

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  title  = {Provide legal advice to clients.},
  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},
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