Lawyers

AUTOMATION RISK

CALCULATED

23%

risk level

POLLING

33%

Based on 5,953 votes

LABOR DEMAND

GROWTH

9.6%

by year 2032

WAGES

$145,760

or $70.07 per hour

Volume

731,340

as of 2023

SUMMARY

JOB SCORE

8.3/10

23% (Low Risk)

Low Risk (21-40%): Jobs in this level have a limited risk of automation, as they demand a mix of technical and human-centric skills.

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Sentiment

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Wages

Very high paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Lawyers' was $145,760, or $70 per hour

'Lawyers' were paid 203.3% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

Wages over time

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Bigmonkey123 (Low) 15 days ago

I think the puplic won’t really want a robot defending them

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J 10 days ago

I worked in the job, and robots are nicer than many humans. And even professional receptionists.

They'll do less errors, and don't require sleep. No more receptionist that is away. Longer opening hours.

Why do you say robots have no empathy, you fillthy racist? They have it. Robots would probably beat you up.

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jim jim (Moderate) 15 days ago

AI will know and understand the law better than any human could.

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J (No chance) 16 days ago

Being a lawyer requires understanding emotion, being able to improvise, and thinking out of the box.

These are the tasks that robots won't be able to fulfill for at least a decade from now.

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J (No chance) 16 days ago

Being a lawyer requires understanding emotion, being able to improvise, and thinking out of the box.

These are the tasks that robots won't be able to fulfill for at least a decade from now.

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AIPredictor (Low) 17 days ago

It is a low chance that a lawyer's job would be replaced by robots because of the fact that AI lacks the fundamental arguing skills and the "human" perspective into the side of things. An example of this would be if a lawyer is defending a client by saying the statement, "What would you do in this situation" and working your way up to it was the best decision they could have made. Also the robot lawyers would have to base their arguments off of data, which would mean their own lawyer would turn against them if having more proof for the other side

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ez (Low) 19 days ago

this job requires skills like persuasion, originality, social perceptiveness, and more, which make it hard to automate.

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Daddy Dirtbag (No chance) 22 days ago

Robots would be way less convincing

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James (Low) 22 days ago

Lawyers are one of few occupations that require persuasivness to be good at your job. An AI cannot immitate human persuasivness unless it is made to be socially and mentally aware. This is a very unlikely scenario as it would come with big risk factors.

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Niran (No chance) 22 days ago

Persuading a robot is impossible, or persuading as a robot.

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shyla acharya (No chance) 26 days ago

No, I do not believe that lawyers would atleast in the next 20 years have any such automation risk, reason being that this occupation requires multiple human centric skills, which are inherent to human beings. While certain aspects of this profession can be polished through automated assistance but full automation seems imposible as of now.

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jesiah! (Low) 1 month ago

the job requires way too much complicated thinking for ai to completely over take it

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Jorge Ruiz (Highly likely) 2 months ago

Most of the time, you contact a lawyer for small cases, when you need quick and effective legal advice. For these cases, a trained AI system will be just fine.

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a 2 months ago

no way. honestly it would take time to develop technology to that level, especially with the quick thinking and if something doesn't go their way or what they were programmed.

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Phoenix5869 (No chance) 3 months ago

No chance in the next 20 years. Lawyers have such a high stakes, complicated job, and I think it`s extremely unlikely they will be automated anytime soon. maybe in 30-35 years, but not 20. 20 years is honestly pretty ridiculous.

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Milan 3 months ago

Lawyers obviously deal with the law and since the law is public information, the data to train such an AI is very accessible. Prior fillings and court opinions also provide AI with how to structure arguments. I definitely think AI will definitely be a highly effective law clerk and save time on research but there will also be plenty of restriction on it's use and jury presentation can be a bit theatrical but AI will not garnish the sympathy of jurors.

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u/thebigvsbattlesfan (Moderate impact) 3 months ago

For legal reasons, this job may be protected from AI

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Alex (Highly likely) 5 months ago

Transactional lawyers do a lot of writing on the basis of standardized documents and precedents. Roaming documents and combining clauses will be easily replaced by AI

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fimgus (No chance) 7 months ago

Absolutely not in the next twenty years, at least in the US. The modern justice system has been in place far too long to immediately switch to something completely different. Even if AI was somehow better at defending people than an actual lawyer, the sheer idea of a robot being able to decide the fate of a criminal is terrifying.
Plus, a lot of lawyers have strong political connections and a lot of money and influence. No way they'd willingly allow themselves to be replaced by AI.

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Kyugo (No chance) 8 months ago

the need to be able to feel and understand emotions is the difference between first second and third degrees of murder. if you do not understand how emotion works you might end up convicting someone with 1st degree that shaould habve gotten 2nd degree, and the poor guy who should have gotten 3rd degree may get 2nd or first degree instead.

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Tony (Highly likely) 9 months ago

Because I already use AI to search for my legal options

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celeste 8 days ago

bro you can do that with a regular search engine (i don't see lawyers being replaced by search engines)

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Tamás (Moderate) 10 months ago

I reckon AI can search within law databases, can write contracts, can make due diligence, etc. However human oversight - at least to some extent - must be always present.

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