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Law and finance

Paralegal

Changing

Searching case files, building document indexes and drafting routine letters are moving quickly to AI. A paralegal's value shifts toward checking what AI produced and keeping cases moving, always under an attorney's supervision.

  • 6 lessons
  • 5 tools
  • 3 resources
  • Checked: October 2026

Where this job sits on the map

In the same group: 78 of 100 professions.

What changes

  1. Going through correspondence and searching case documents is something AI does faster than a person

  2. Entry-level tasks shift from searching and copying to checking what AI did

  3. You need to know your firm's AI tools and their weak spots: where they miss things and where they make things up

AI drafts, the person decides

How the work splits here: AI prepares a draft, the person checks it and makes the call.

AI makes the draft

What AI does

  • Sort a folder of documents by date, party and type
  • Build a document index and check a set of documents against a checklist
  • Find mentions of a topic or a date in hundreds of emails
  • Draft a routine letter, request or cover note
You check itRead it, check the facts, fix it. Without this check the draft goes nowhere.
You decide and stay responsible

What stays with the person

  • Checking that AI didn't miss or make up anything
  • Deadlines, filings, and dealing with the court and the other parties
  • Confidentiality of case materials
  • Knowing the specific case and the people in it

What to learn first

6 lessons from the course, in order. Start with the first one.

  1. Your first 30 minutes with AI: where to startStarting from zeroYour first 30 minutes with AI: sign up, ask three questions, try seven everyday tasks, learn what never to share and which plan to pick.Start here
  2. How to write a good promptUserHow to give AI a task: the five parts of a good prompt, Plan Mode, and how to refine an answer instead of starting over.
  3. AI ethics and safety: hallucinations, attacks, biasUserHallucinations, prompt injection, bias, privacy and copyright: how not to trust AI blindly.
  4. AI meeting notes with Otter.ai and FirefliesConfident userMeetings with AI: recording and transcription, notes and tasks through Fireflies, Claude and a webhook.
  5. Notion AI as your team's knowledge baseConfident userNotion as shared memory for a team and its agents: connecting the Notion MCP and three starter templates.
  6. RAG: Retrieval Augmented GenerationBuilderRAG: how to teach Claude to answer from your own documents using embeddings and a vector database.

Which tools to use

  • An AI assistant for long documents, analysis and code, with Claude Code and Cowork on paid plans.

    Freemium

  • Formerly NotebookLM: upload documents, links and videos and get cited answers based on them.

    Freemium

  • A workspace and knowledge base with an AI agent that writes, summarizes and takes meeting notes.

    Freemium

  • Transcription on your Mac without sending files to the cloud; 100+ languages.

    Freemium

  • Translate and edit text across many languages with Write, Translator and Voice.

    Freemium

Ready-to-use materials

  • A long document boiled down to the gist, key points with page references, numbers and deadlines, and questions for the author.

    Free

  • Assess the risk, spot the signs of a made-up answer and run a 5-minute check before you act on what AI says.

    Free

  • A 30-second check before you hit send: what to remove, how to anonymize and what to do if it's already gone out.

    Free

How to earn with AI

We don't promise income: results depend on your niche, your market and your work.

  • Job

    Become the person at the firm who sets up and checks AI workflows: document indexes, case summaries, case-file search. That's more valuable to a firm than doing the same routine work by hand.

  • Service

    Help small law practices: get their documents in order and set up AI use under their confidentiality rules.

  • Product

    A checklist and a set of prompts for assembling a document package for a routine procedure, with a required manual review step.

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Checked: October 2026