Legal Counsel - 35884
👤 For candidates
🤖 Enhance with AI
- ›Use AI tools for rapid contract analysis and review
- ›Leverage legal research AI for up-to-date case law
- ›Automate routine compliance checks with AI platforms
📈 Disruption outlook
% risk of significant disruption
🎓 Learn now
📚 For full-time, part-time & evening courses on the Isle of Man, visit University College Isle of Man (UCM)
🏢 For employers
🔄 Alternatives
Automates contract review and risk flagging efficiently
Streamlines contract lifecycle management with automation
⚡ Recommendation
⚡ Augment roleAI boosts efficiency but human expertise remains essential for judgment tasks
Microsoft Copilot & M365
Draft and review legal documents faster
Automate compliance tracking and reporting workflows
Build custom legal research chatbots
Lawyers
O*NET 23-1011.00
Job Description
Automation Risk
While several routine and research-based tasks can be meaningfully augmented by AI (e.g., legal research, contract review, risk flagging), the core of this role requires expert judgment, stakeholder management, and strategic alignment, which are resistant to full automation. The overall automation risk is low due to the high proportion of human-centric and judgment-based responsibilities, but AI exposure is moderate-high as many tasks can be supported by advanced legal AI tools.
Task analysis
- Provide high-quality, independent legal advice to business units on a range of legal, regulatory, and governance matters.
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts and other legal documents.
- Identify, manage, and mitigate legal, regulatory, and corporate governance risks.
- Interpret and communicate the impact of new laws and regulations to internal stakeholders.
- Support the company’s strategic and commercial objectives through legal input and oversight.
- Promote ethics and responsible business conduct across the organization.
- Supervise and oversee legal matters across multiple business areas.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant laws and best practices.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Occupational Classification
UK Salary Benchmark
Legal activities · ONS ASHE 2024 annual earnings
👤 For Candidates
AI & future-of-work guidance
🤖 Enhance with AI
- ›Use AI tools for rapid contract analysis and review
- ›Leverage legal research AI for up-to-date case law
- ›Automate routine compliance checks with AI platforms
📈 Disruption outlook
% risk of significant disruption
🎓 Learn now
📚 For full-time, part-time & evening courses on the Isle of Man, visit University College Isle of Man (UCM)
🏢 For Employers
Strategic hiring options & technology alternatives
🔄 Alternatives
Automates contract review and risk flagging efficiently
Streamlines contract lifecycle management with automation
⚡ Recommendation
⚡ Augment roleAI boosts efficiency but human expertise remains essential for judgment tasks
Microsoft Copilot & M365
Draft and review legal documents faster
Automate compliance tracking and reporting workflows
Build custom legal research chatbots
Key Skills
Knowledge Areas
O*NET Competency Skills
Alternative Career Paths
Lead the legal function and oversee all legal, regulatory, and governance matters for an organization.
Specialize in ensuring organizational adherence to laws, regulations, and internal policies.
Identify, assess, and mitigate legal and operational risks across the business.
Advise the board on governance matters and ensure regulatory compliance.
Manage interactions with regulators and oversee compliance with industry regulations.
Also Consider
🔥 Hot Technologies
In-demand tools for this occupation (O*NET)
Work Activities
General work activities from O*NET
- Getting Information
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
- Communicating with People Outside the Organization
- Providing Consultation and Advice to Others
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
- Processing Information
- Working with Computers
- Documenting/Recording Information
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
Anthropic Economic Index
Real-world AI adoption data from millions of Claude conversations · Dataset ↗
Observed Claude Usage
17%
of conversations
Classic Auto. Risk
4%
Frey & Osborne
Job Zone
5/5
Extensive prep
O*NET Median Salary
£96k
US ref. $121k · fx 0.79
Occupational family: Legal
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