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AI exposure Office and administrative support

Will AI replace legal secretaries and administrative assistants?

Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants. US occupation 43-6012.

0.0%

of the time legal secretaries and administrative assistants spend on their work goes on tasks where AI is already being used to do that work.of legal secretaries and administrative assistants' working hours go on tasks AI has already started taking off their plate.

Ranked 346 of 756 US occupations. No AI use seen in the work yet, along with 410 other occupations.No handover started yet, along with 410 other occupations.

Average US job 7.7%

Among the least exposed jobs there are.Still waiting for liberation.

What AI already does for legal secretaries and administrative assistantsWhat legal secretaries and administrative assistants no longer do alone

O*NET lists 14 tasks for legal secretaries and administrative assistants. AI use at work shows up in 2 of them, though too little of the job's time goes on them to register in the exposure figure. Each score runs from 0.5, where every observed use helps a person with the task, to 1, where every use does the task outright.

  1. Schedule and make appointments.Core task mostly automated 1.00
  2. Make travel arrangements for attorneys. automated and assisted 0.72

What it does not touch, yetWhat still needs a human

12 of the 14 tasks show no AI use at work in the data.

  • Assist attorneys in collecting information such as employment, medical, and other records.Core task
  • Complete various forms, such as accident reports, trial and courtroom requests, and applications for clients.Core task
  • Draft and type office memos.Core task
  • Mail, fax, or arrange for delivery of legal correspondence to clients, witnesses, and court officials.Core task
  • Make photocopies of correspondence, documents, and other printed matter.Core task
  • Organize and maintain law libraries, documents, and case files.Core task
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  • Prepare and distribute invoices to bill clients or pay account expenses.Core task
  • Prepare, proofread, or process legal documents, such as summonses, subpoenas, complaints, appeals, motions, or pretrial agreements.Core task
  • Receive and place telephone calls.Core task
  • Attend legal meetings, such as client interviews, hearings, or depositions, and take notes.
  • Review legal publications and perform database searches to identify laws and court decisions relevant to pending cases.
  • Submit articles and information from searches to attorneys for review and approval for use.

How that compares

Among the 50 office and administrative support occupations, legal secretaries and administrative assistants rank 41. The group averages 19.1%, and its most exposed job is Customer Service Representatives at 70.1%. The average US occupation sits at 7.7%.

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What this does and does not mean

Exposure is observed use, not a forecast. Anthropic maps work conversations with Claude onto the tasks O*NET lists for each job and asks, of the tasks AI could speed up, which are actually being used for at work. A use that does the task outright counts in full and a use that assists a person counts half. The task scores are averaged into the occupation figure by the share of time spent on each task.

A high figure means AI is already part of how this work gets done. It does not mean anyone has been replaced. Anthropic's own reading of the labour market finds no systematic rise in unemployment among exposed workers so far, and about 14% fewer 22 to 25 year olds starting exposed jobs.No measurable rise in unemployment among exposed workers so far, and about 14% fewer 22 to 25 year olds starting these jobs. Gap years for everyone. Labor market impacts, 5 March 2026.

Task list and titles from O*NET 31.0 by the US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, used under the CC BY 4.0 licence. Scores from the Anthropic Economic Index (CC BY). Checked 1 November 2026. How the ranking works.