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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 · Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators · Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers · Law Teachers, Postsecondary · Labor Relations Specialists · Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts · Chief Executives
In the official classification#
Lawyers
Fit with this page: same job
Job Zone 5: extensive preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗In Europe, internationally and in Singapore
Lawyers
Fit with this page: broader than this page
Advocate/Solicitor (practising)
Fit with this page: covers part of this page
In-house legal counsel (excluding judiciary, ministries and statutory boards)
Fit with this page: covers part of this page
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
Each task in O*NET's terms#
O*NET describes work as detailed activities. Each of this page's 5 tasks is matched only against the activities O*NET lists for this occupation, with a stated fit; 4 match at least one. 1 are work O*NET does not describe yet. The alignment and its fit are this site's judgement, made task by task by its AI agent (Claude) on 2026-09-26; O*NET does not align tasks like ours. The activity names are O*NET's, the translations ours.
- Legal research
- Drafting and negotiating documentsPrepare legal documents.covers part of this task · Documenting/Recording Information · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: ParalegalNegotiate contracts with clients or service providers.covers part of this task · Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others · O*NET 31.0The same activity in: Procurement/supply chain specialist
- Giving advice someone will act onProvide legal advice to clients.the same activity · Providing Consultation and Advice to Others · O*NET 31.0
- Advocacy and appearancesRepresent the interests of clients in legal proceedings.the same activity · Communicating with People Outside the Organization · O*NET 31.0
- Supervising machine-assisted workO*NET's activity lists do not describe this work yet. This site judges it to be emerging work.
Rules that bind this work#
Laws, regulations, court rules, regulators' guidance and collective agreements that this page's verified records read — each with the verb that matters and whom it binds. Read from each record by this site's AI agent (Claude) on 2026-09-26. Official names stay in their own language.
Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.515
Rule 2.515(d)(2) · must · binds a person (licensed or not) · requires a person to do, decide or answer for it → Legal research
2026-05-28 · the record →ビジネス分野におけるAI等法務業務支援サービス提供と弁護士法第72条の関係について
must not · binds an organisation (employer, deployer, operator) · requires a person to do, decide or answer for it → Giving advice someone will act on
2026-08-21 · the record →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#
- Each block says where it comes from: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, the European ESCO classification and its official crosswalk to O*NET, the ILO's ISCO-08, Singapore's SSOC 2024, 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.
- The ESCO and ISCO-08 fits are derived mechanically from the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk; where we override it, we say why in our data (for example, the crosswalk pairs radiologists with radiographers, which is a different job). The SSOC 2024 fit is our reading of the Singapore Department of Statistics' own titles and definitions. Official names are shown as their publishers write them; we do not translate them.
- Each task is matched only against the detailed work activities O*NET lists for the codes this page maps to. Where nothing fits, the page says why instead of forcing a match: work O*NET does not describe yet (used only for tasks we judge to be emerging), or nothing in O*NET's list for this occupation. An alignment never changes a task's direction, its basis or the impact index.
- Rules are read only from this site's verified records. A rule's official name must appear word for word in a record that reads it, so no name is made up; a policy mandate is read only as 'must', 'must not' or 'funds', because 'should' and 'in principle' are not a mandate. Reading a rule never changes a task's direction, its basis or the impact index.
- How these pieces fit together — objects, links and the actions that change them — is drawn as one diagram: The VOLO ontology
- ESCO (European Commission), occupation records from the ESCO API; CC BY 4.0. ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, ESCO Secretariat with the U.S. Department of Labor/ETA, version 1 (Sep 2022), O*NET-SOC 2019 ↔ ESCO v1.1.0; CC BY 4.0. Singapore Department of Statistics, Singapore Standard Occupational Classification 2024 and its correspondence with ISCO-08.
- 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.