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Not Very Resilient
Last Update: 5/19/2026
Your role’s AI Resilience Score is
23.0%
Median Score
Meaningful human contribution
Measures the parts of the occupation that still require a human touch. This score averages data from up to four AI exposure datasets, focusing on the role’s resilience against automation.
Low
Long-term employer demand
Predicts the health of the job market for this role through 2034. Using Bureau of Labor Statistics data, it balances projected annual job openings (60%) with overall employment growth (40%).
Med
Sustained economic opportunity
Measures future earning potential and career flexibility. This score is a blend of total projected labor income (67%) and the role’s inherent ability to adapt to economic and technological shifts (33%).
Low
This reflects the reliability of your score based on the number of data sources available for this career and how closely those sources agree on the outlook. A higher confidence means more consistent evidence from labor experts and AI models.
Most data sources align, with only minor variation. This is a well-supported result.
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AI Resilience Report forLegal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants are less resilient to AI impacts than most occupations, according to our analysis of 6 sources.
Legal secretaries and administrative assistants are labeled "Not Very Resilient" because the core tasks that make up most of this job — drafting documents, scheduling, summarizing information, and handling paperwork — are exactly what AI tools are already doing faster and cheaper. In fact, AI use among legal professionals nearly doubled in a single year, and the routine work that used to keep legal secretaries busy is increasingly being handled by tools already built into everyday software like Microsoft 365.
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Legal secretaries and administrative assistants are labeled "Not Very Resilient" because the core tasks that make up most of this job — drafting documents, scheduling, summarizing information, and handling paperwork — are exactly what AI tools are already doing faster and cheaper. In fact, AI use among legal professionals nearly doubled in a single year, and the routine work that used to keep legal secretaries busy is increasingly being handled by tools already built into everyday software like Microsoft 365.
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Legal Secs & Admin Asst.
Updated Quarterly • Last Update: 5/14/2026
How is AI changing Legal Secs & Admin Asst. jobs?
Right now, AI is mostly augmenting (helping with) the work of legal secretaries and administrative assistants rather than fully replacing them — but that augmentation is happening fast. Robert Half explains that AI is taking over the repetitive, time-consuming parts of the job for administrative pros — including scheduling, meeting transcription, email drafting, auto-creating tasks, and building slide decks [1]. In law specifically, the 2026 Thomson Reuters AI in Professional Services Report [2] found that 55% of firms now use general-purpose AI, 38% use enterprise tools like Microsoft Copilot, and 35% use legal-specific AI — mostly for drafting correspondence (55%), document review (74%), and summarization (73%).
A separate 2026 Legal Industry Report covered by LawSites [3] shows gen-AI use among legal professionals jumped from 31% to 69% in a single year. These are exactly the tasks — scheduling, paperwork, form-filling, drafting subpoenas — that legal secretaries handle. Brookings flags secretaries and administrative assistants (1.7 million workers) as one of the largest occupations in the top quartile of AI exposure [4], and BLS projects legal secretary jobs will decline about 6% from 2024–2034 [5].
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How fast is AI adoption growing for Legal Secs & Admin Asst.?
Adoption is moving quickly because the tools are cheap, easy to use, and already inside Microsoft 365 — the Association of Legal Administrators notes staff are using these tools "whether firms formally adopt automation tools or not" [6], with confidentiality and ethics being the main brakes. On the labor side, The Agency Recruiting reports the traditional law-firm pyramid is "compressing" [7], with firms hiring fewer entry-level roles and more tech-fluent paralegals and legal-ops specialists. The hopeful takeaway: human judgment, client communication, and knowing legal procedure still matter — and being the person who knows how to direct the AI is becoming one of the most valuable skills you can build.
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Career: Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
They help lawyers by organizing files, scheduling meetings, and handling important paperwork to keep everything running smoothly.
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Employment & Wage Data
Median Wage
$54,140
Jobs (2024)
156,300
Growth (2024-34)
-5.8%
Annual Openings
19,600
Education
High school diploma or equivalent
Experience
None
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024-2034
Task-Level AI Resilience Scores
AI-generated estimates of task resilience over the next 3 years
1
Attend legal meetings, such as client interviews, hearings, or depositions, and take notes.
2
Prepare and process legal documents and papers, such as summonses, subpoenas, complaints, appeals, motions, and pretrial agreements.
3
Assist attorneys in collecting information such as employment, medical, and other records.
4
Receive and place telephone calls.
5
Organize and maintain law libraries, documents, and case files.
6
Review legal publications and perform database searches to identify laws and court decisions relevant to pending cases.
7
Submit articles and information from searches to attorneys for review and approval for use.
Tasks are ranked by their AI resilience, with the most resilient tasks shown first. Core tasks are essential functions of this occupation, while supplemental tasks provide additional context.
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