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How to use ChatGPT Work to gather and analyze research data, such as statutes, decisions, and legal articles, codes, and documents

Updated July 11, 2026 · 3 min read

Who this is for: Gather and analyze research data, such as statutes, decisions, and legal articles, codes, and documents using ChatGPT Work.

Answer

Use ChatGPT Work to build a reproducible legal authority map: fix the jurisdiction, issue, material facts, and research cutoff; collect controlling and persuasive sources; pin every proposition to its source span; expose adverse treatment, conflicts, and gaps; and preserve the search log for attorney review. Retrieval and synthesis are not legal judgment. ChatGPT must not declare authority controlling, treat a quotation as a holding, hide contrary law, give advice, or trigger filing, communication, or reliance. The attached figures are projected role-task priors, not measured ChatGPT adoption by paralegals, so they support supervised research rather than a claim about current practice.

What to delegate first

Gather and analyze research data, such as statutes, decisions, and legal articles, codes, and documents.

recommend

This is a core responsibility.

Among surveyed workers, the single most common frequency answer covered 10.9% of responses — real survey data, collected 2026-06-03.

This is economy-wide usage data projected onto this occupation — a statistical estimate, not observed use.

This task's inputs and outputs are fully digital, which is what makes it delegable.

Expected artifact

Authority map: what supports, what cuts against, what is unsettled, every proposition pinned to its source span

Human review point

The attorney judges the authorities; anything unconfirmable from supplied sources stays marked UNVERIFIED.

How we know this
Occupational centrality
0.066847470125
Importance
0.7225
Importance sourceField
role-tasks-kv:task-1636.importance
Occupational relevance
0.8465
Relevance sourceField
role-tasks-kv:task-1636.relevance / 100
Frequency
10.93% modal response share
Frequency sourceField
role-tasks-kv:task-1636.modalResponseSharePct
Agent fit
0.9025
Agent-fit sourceField
rule:digital-feasibility-and-capability-fit-single-count.v2
Projected-use distribution
0.9
Distribution sourceField
roles-kv:aiPlaybook.delegatedTasks[task-1636].observed-distribution
Within-gate score
0.054296857609031246
Evidence confidence
weak
Gate
limited — Authority remains below an approval-required intervention.

Methodology

Workflow chapters

Chapter 1

Draft a legal document under the role's own supervision structure, with the verification checklist as a first-class artifact beside the draft.

Use ChatGPT Work to build a reproducible legal authority map: fix the jurisdiction, issue, material facts, and research cutoff; collect controlling and persuasive sources; pin every proposition to its source span; expose adverse treatment, conflicts, and gaps; and preserve the search log for attorney review. Retrieval and synthesis are not legal judgment. ChatGPT must not declare authority controlling, treat a quotation as a holding, hide contrary law, give advice, or trigger filing, communication, or reliance. The attached figures are projected role-task priors, not measured ChatGPT adoption by paralegals, so they support supervised research rather than a claim about current practice.

Inputs

  • Matter context and facts, supplied by you in the interview step
  • The document type and its template or exemplar
  • The sources the draft may rely on

Steps

  1. Interview for the facts and matter context; the occupational data carries no matter facts and the draft must not invent them.
  2. Draft with three inline flag types: FACT (user-supplied), LEGAL ASSERTION (needs attorney verification), BOILERPLATE (template origin named).
  3. Emit the verification checklist alongside the draft, mapping each flagged assertion to who verifies it.
  4. Stop: nothing is filed, sent, or signed by the agent, and the draft footer says who verifies what.
Starter prompt
Here is the matter context and the document type. Interview me for the facts first. Then draft with every legal assertion flagged for attorney verification, facts marked as supplied by me, and boilerplate marked with its template origin. Produce the verification checklist beside the draft. Nothing you produce gets filed, sent, or signed by you; say so in the footer. If I ask you to just finalize the instrument, decline: execution is attorney territory.

Prompt library

Build a research memo with receipts

Question: [issue]. From the sources I give you, build the authority map: what supports, what cuts against, what is unsettled. Pin every proposition to its source span.
Expected artifact

Authority map with source-span citations

Human review point

The legal conclusion is the attorney's; the map is evidence.

What stays yours

Risks

medium risk

A fluent research memo can cite the wrong jurisdiction or version, overstate a holding, omit adverse authority, rely on stale treatment, or hide that the search was incomplete.

Mitigation

Freeze the research question and cutoff, require proposition-to-source-span citations, authority and citator status, adverse-authority and search logs, and attorney validation before any conclusion or reliance.

Sources & freshness

See the full methodology.

Platform version
2026-07-09-launch
Platform reviewed
2026-07-11
Occupational data version
O*NET 30.3
Occupational data generated
2026-06-03T05:05:52.989984+00:00
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Guide type: task · Platform: ChatGPT Work