For paralegals and legal assistants, ChatGPT Work fits the role's own constitutional structure: everything drafts under supervision, mirroring the attorney-review structure paralegal work is done within. It is strongest on document preparation with every legal assertion flagged for attorney verification, ruthless cite-checking that never vouches from memory, and research memos where every proposition pins to its source span. This occupation also has the widest expert disagreement in our set: published exposure estimates span from very low to very high depending on what each study measured, and usage estimates, projected from economy-wide data rather than directly observed, lean augmentation. The verification discipline is not overhead here; fabricated citations are this profession's best-known AI failure, so the discipline is the product.
