Confer with colleagues with specialties in appropriate areas of legal issue to establish and verify bases for legal proceedings.

“Confer with colleagues with specialties in appropriate areas of legal issue to establish and verify bases for legal proceedings.” is a core task performed by Lawyers. Among the occupation's 22 rated tasks, workers place it 6th by importance (#17 most important). About 94% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Discuss legal matters with clients, disputants, or legal professionals or staff. in Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Interpret laws, rulings and regulations for individuals and businesses. · importance 4.5
• Analyze the probable outcomes of cases, using knowledge of legal precedents. · importance 4.4
• Gather evidence to formulate defense or to initiate legal actions by such means as interviewing clients and witnesses to ascertain the facts of a case. · importance 4.4
• Present and summarize cases to judges and juries. · importance 4.4
• Represent clients in court or before government agencies. · importance 4.3
• Select jurors, argue motions, meet with judges, and question witnesses during the course of a trial. · importance 4.3
• Evaluate findings and develop strategies and arguments in preparation for presentation of cases. · importance 4.3
• Present evidence to defend clients or prosecute defendants in criminal or civil litigation. · importance 4.3
• Advise clients concerning business transactions, claim liability, advisability of prosecuting or defending lawsuits, or legal rights and obligations. · importance 4.3
• Examine legal data to determine advisability of defending or prosecuting lawsuit. · importance 4.2
• Prepare, draft, and review legal documents, such as wills, deeds, patent applications, mortgages, leases, and contracts. · importance 4.2
• Study Constitution, statutes, decisions, regulations, and ordinances of quasi-judicial bodies to determine ramifications for cases. · importance 4.0
• Negotiate settlements of civil disputes. · importance 4.0
• Supervise legal assistants. · importance 4.0

See all tasks on the Lawyers page.

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
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

@misc{singulariki-task-3787,
  title  = {Confer with colleagues with specialties in appropriate areas of legal issue to establish and verify bases for legal proceedings.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-3787}
}