Automation And Machine Learning: An Opportunity To Upskill Support Staff

There are approximately 1.3 million lawyers in America. A law firm is also made up of support staff such as paralegals, legal assistants and legal secretaries. In total, are approximately 271,000 paralegals and 202,000 legal secretaries in the United States. So with almost 500,000 law firm support staff jobs in America, the most common question I'm asked is: "Will automation and machine learning cause me to lose my job?" Duties carried out by most law firm support staff are administrative in nature. The most common are word processing, research, proofreading, data entry, filing and in some cases, document drafting.