Is a Paralegal Safe From AI?
The document-heavy half of the job is genuinely at risk — contract review, discovery, and legal research are some of the strongest current use cases for AI. The client- and court-facing half, and the professional judgment about what actually matters in a filing, is not.
At Risk · Verdict: 12-24 months runway
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Legal has adopted AI review tools faster than most white-collar fields because the ROI is obvious and the risk of a bad first draft is low (a lawyer still checks it). That means paralegal hours spent on first-pass review are shrinking fastest, while paralegals who move toward case management, client coordination, or e-discovery strategy — supervising the AI tools rather than competing with them line-by-line — are becoming more valuable, not less.
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