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Lawyer — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Judicial Law Clerks · Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers · Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates · Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators · Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers · Law Teachers, Postsecondary · Labor Relations Specialists · Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts
In the official classification#
Lawyers
Fit with this page: same job
Job Zone 5: extensive preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 23-1011.00 (Lawyers). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- Complex Problem SolvingVery important
- Judgment and Decision MakingVery important
- PersuasionVery important
- NegotiationVery important
- Social PerceptivenessVery important
- Time ManagementVery important
- CoordinationVery important
- Systems AnalysisImportant
Knowledge
- Law and GovernmentExtremely important
- English LanguageExtremely important
- Customer and Personal ServiceVery important
- AdministrativeImportant
- Computers and ElectronicsImportant
- Communications and MediaImportant
Work activities
- Getting InformationExtremely important
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or SubordinatesExtremely important
- Making Decisions and Solving ProblemsExtremely important
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with StandardsExtremely important
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with OthersVery important
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for OthersVery important
Abilities
- Oral ExpressionExtremely important
- Oral ComprehensionExtremely important
- Written ComprehensionExtremely important
- Written ExpressionExtremely important
- Speech ClarityVery important
- Deductive ReasoningVery important
Essential skills
- SpeakingExtremely important
- Reading ComprehensionExtremely important
- Active ListeningExtremely important
- Critical ThinkingExtremely important
- WritingVery important
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 5 task judgements are for: 4 backed by a verified event, 1 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.