Jobs / Legal / 23-2099.00

Legal Support Workers, All Other

All legal support workers not listed separately.

US jobs: 46,760
Median wage: $72,110 a year
Job family: Legal

Can agents do the work of legal support workers, all other?

We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Legal:

Task levelUnexploredNo task-level benchmark in our collection tests legal work, such as contract review or legal research with tools.
Project levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. APEX-Agents includes corporate-law tasks: across banking, consulting, and law, the best agent passes 73.5% on the first try. GDPval includes lawyers among its 44 occupations. Neither benchmark tests work with real clients, courts, or deadlines.

Benchmarks for the job family

These cover work in legal, not always this occupation's tasks.

APEX-Agentsby Mercor, Box and HarveyProject level · Pass@1
73.5%Claude Opus 5.5 (max) · 23 Sep 2026
Strong
GDPvalby OpenAIProject level · Wins plus ties against experts
84.9%GPT-5.5 · Apr 2026
Strong
GDPval-AAby Artificial AnalysisProject level · GDPval-AA Elo
1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026
Unrated

Other job titles for this occupation (21)

Advocate · Brief Writer · Case Briefer · Closer · Contract Clerk · Escrow Closer · Escrow Officer · Friend of the Court · Juror · Law Examiner · Law Researcher · Legal Administrator · Legal Research Analyst · Legal Technician · Legislative Aide · Legislative Assistant · Life Care Planner · Patent Examiner · Patent Searcher · Tariff Expert · Trial Examiner