What the US government's figures say about this job, the tasks it involves, and every study we found on what AI does to it. None of this is a forecast of your own job.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects every job ten years ahead and says what it expects to drive the change.
“demand for these workers is expected to be limited by advances in technology, including artificial intelligence (AI)”
The sentence begins "However,". BLS also says "These technologies are expected to make paralegals and legal assistants more efficient at tasks such as conducting research".
BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, Aug 27, 2026
$30.24 an hour
As the government's O*NET database lists them. AI's effect on a job depends on which of these tasks it can do.
O*NET OnLine, Oct 6, 2026
We haven't found a trial or study of AI in this job yet. The score below is the best measure so far of how much its work overlaps with what people do with AI.
0.06on a scale from 0 to 1
Microsoft AI applicability score for Paralegals and Legal Assistants (SOC 23-2011)
How much of the occupation's work activities overlap with what people successfully do with Microsoft's Bing Copilot; not a forecast of job loss.
Low score: Microsoft's paper puts the Legal Support Workers group at 0.06.
Microsoft Research, Working with AI, Dec 22, 2025 · data licensed CC BY 4.0
How far the evidence has got for tasks this job involves, on our six-step ladder.
Every task
Stage 3 of 6Independently tested
Leading legal AI tools gave wrong information over 17% of the time
2,199 court decisions with AI-invented content
Stage 1 of 6Claimed
DoNotPay marketed itself as 'the world's first robot lawyer'
Stage 3 of 6Independently tested
2024 book test: GPT-4o 55.8% on claims people found easy
Checked Oct 19, 2026. How we check