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O*NET detailed work activityPrepare legal documents
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AI can draft the structure and standard wording. The specifics, the judgment calls and the sign-off are yours.
Part of Prepare legal or regulatory documents, under the O*NET work activity group Documenting/Recording Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (14 AI-ready, 3 AI-assist, 2 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Copy or summarize recorded documents, such as mortgages, trust deeds, and contracts, that affect property titles.
- Prepare briefs, legal memoranda, or statements of issues involved in cases, including appropriate suggestions or recommendations.
- Prepare and issue title commitments and title insurance policies, based on information compiled from title searches.
- Prepare lists of all legal instruments applying to a specific piece of land and the buildings on it.
- Prepare reports describing any title encumbrances encountered during searching activities and outlining actions needed to clear titles.
- Draft or proofread judicial opinions, decisions, or citations.
- Verify accuracy and completeness of land-related documents accepted for registration, preparing rejection notices when documents are not acceptable.
- Prepare, edit, or review legal documents, including legislation, briefs, pleadings, appeals, wills, contracts, and real estate closing statements.
- Prepare, proofread, or process legal documents, such as summonses, subpoenas, complaints, appeals, motions, or pretrial agreements.
- Prepare, draft, and review legal documents, such as wills, deeds, patent applications, mortgages, leases, and contracts.
- Prepare documents recording the outcomes of court proceedings.
- Prepare and issue orders of the court, such as probation orders, release documentation, sentencing information, or summonses.
- Prepare settlement agreements for disputants to sign.
- Prepare legal briefs and opinions, and file appeals in state and federal courts of appeal.
- Prepare ordinances, resolutions, or proclamations so that they can be executed, recorded, archived, or distributed.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Prepare affidavits or other documents, such as legal correspondence, and organize and maintain documents in paper or electronic filing system.
- Issue subpoenas and administer oaths in preparation for formal hearings.
- Issue subpoenas or administer oaths to prepare for formal hearings.
- Maintain judges' law libraries by assembling or updating appropriate documents.