Legal professionals n.e.c.
Job holders in this unit group perform a variety of other professional legal occupations not elsewhere classified in minor group 241: Legal professionals.
- Employees (UK)
- 71k
- Median annual pay
- £33,822
- Exposure score ?
- 1.0/10 Minimal 9.2/10 Very high strict reading, with tools is 9.2/10 with-tools reading, strict is 1.0/10
- Wage exposure
- £240m £2.21bn
Higher exposure than 54% of the 379 UK occupations we scored.
What this score means.
Most of this role's work is still hard for AI: physical presence, practised skill, judgement in context and direct care, the things that do not turn into text.
If you are in this role
Nothing here is under pressure today, but the frontier moves. Learn enough to direct AI at the paperwork around the job. People in hands-on roles who can do that become unusually useful inside their organisations.
Almost every routine task in this role is within reach of today's models. Roles like this are being rebuilt, usually not by disappearing but by one person using AI to produce what several did.
If you are in this role
Be the person doing the rebuilding. People who learn to run this kind of work with AI become very valuable, and the ones who wait tend to have the change made for them.
Where the work usually starts.
This role's strict reading is low because its top tasks are judgement, not drafting. The three highest-stakes tasks below are still usually where the work starts. Switch to With tools to see what AI plus the right context can take on.
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Prepare written opinions or decisions regarding cases.
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Apply relevant laws, regulations, policies, or precedents to reach conclusions.
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Conduct hearings to obtain information or evidence relative to disposition of claims.
These are the most important tasks AI can already handle when paired with the right tools and context. The first wins usually come from building workflows around them. That is the difference between a model that could do the job and one that actually does it inside your business.
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Prepare written opinions or decisions regarding cases.
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Apply relevant laws, regulations, policies, or precedents to reach conclusions.
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Conduct hearings to obtain information or evidence relative to disposition of claims.
Every role has three or four places like these. Finding them takes an hour. Turning them into a workflow your team actually uses takes a few days.
Every task in the role.
Every O*NET task for this occupation, split by what AI can do unaided and what still needs a person. Importance is O*NET's 1 to 5 rating of how central each task is.
Tasks via O*NET "Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators" (23-1022.00).
What AI can already do
2 of 20 tasks, unaided
Prepare written opinions or decisions regarding cases.
Organize or deliver public presentations about mediation to organizations, such as community agencies or schools.
What still needs a person
18 of 20 tasks
Apply relevant laws, regulations, policies, or precedents to reach conclusions.
Conduct hearings to obtain information or evidence relative to disposition of claims.
Determine extent of liability according to evidence, laws, or administrative or judicial precedents.
Rule on exceptions, motions, or admissibility of evidence.
Confer with disputants to clarify issues, identify underlying concerns, and develop an understanding of their respective needs and interests.
Use mediation techniques to facilitate communication between disputants, to further parties' understanding of different perspectives, and to guide parties toward mutual agreement.
Conduct initial meetings with disputants to outline the arbitration process, settle procedural matters, such as fees, or determine details, such as witness numbers or time requirements.
Evaluate information from documents, such as claim applications, birth or death certificates, or physician or employer records.
Research laws, regulations, policies, or precedent decisions to prepare for hearings.
Issue subpoenas or administer oaths to prepare for formal hearings.
Set up appointments for parties to meet for mediation.
Interview claimants, agents, or witnesses to obtain information about disputed issues.
Recommend acceptance or rejection of compromise settlement offers.
Conduct studies of appeals procedures to ensure adherence to legal requirements or to facilitate disposition of cases.
Specialize in the negotiation and resolution of environmental conflicts involving issues such as natural resource allocation or regional development planning.
Prepare settlement agreements for disputants to sign.
Authorize payment of valid claims.
Participate in court proceedings.
Tasks via O*NET "Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators" (23-1022.00).
What AI can already do
18 of 20 tasks, with tools
Prepare written opinions or decisions regarding cases.
Apply relevant laws, regulations, policies, or precedents to reach conclusions.
Conduct hearings to obtain information or evidence relative to disposition of claims.
Determine extent of liability according to evidence, laws, or administrative or judicial precedents.
Rule on exceptions, motions, or admissibility of evidence.
Confer with disputants to clarify issues, identify underlying concerns, and develop an understanding of their respective needs and interests.
Use mediation techniques to facilitate communication between disputants, to further parties' understanding of different perspectives, and to guide parties toward mutual agreement.
Conduct initial meetings with disputants to outline the arbitration process, settle procedural matters, such as fees, or determine details, such as witness numbers or time requirements.
Evaluate information from documents, such as claim applications, birth or death certificates, or physician or employer records.
Research laws, regulations, policies, or precedent decisions to prepare for hearings.
Set up appointments for parties to meet for mediation.
Interview claimants, agents, or witnesses to obtain information about disputed issues.
Recommend acceptance or rejection of compromise settlement offers.
Conduct studies of appeals procedures to ensure adherence to legal requirements or to facilitate disposition of cases.
Specialize in the negotiation and resolution of environmental conflicts involving issues such as natural resource allocation or regional development planning.
Prepare settlement agreements for disputants to sign.
Authorize payment of valid claims.
Organize or deliver public presentations about mediation to organizations, such as community agencies or schools.
What still needs a person
2 of 20 tasks
Issue subpoenas or administer oaths to prepare for formal hearings.
Participate in court proceedings.
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Related occupations.
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What it means for your sector.
This role's score comes from Eloundou et al's 2023 task labels, weighted by O*NET importance within each O*NET-SOC code, then bridged to UK SOC 2020 through ISCO-08 (the ONS coding index) and US SOC 2010 (the BLS crosswalk). Employment and median pay come from ONS ASHE Table 14.7a, 2025 provisional, which covers employees only.
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