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O*NET detailed work activityMeet with individuals involved in legal processes to provide information and clarify issues
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This depends on human connection: empathy, trust, being physically present and responding to someone in real time. People can tell the difference.
Part of Discuss legal matters with clients, disputants, or legal professionals or staff, under the O*NET work activity group Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 1 AI-assist, 8 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Ask speakers to clarify inaudible statements.
- Confer with legal counsel on claims requiring litigation.
- Confer with colleagues with specialties in appropriate areas of legal issue to establish and verify bases for legal proceedings.
- Confer with disputants to clarify issues, identify underlying concerns, and develop an understanding of their respective needs and interests.
- Conduct initial meetings with disputants to outline the arbitration process, settle procedural matters, such as fees, or determine details, such as witness numbers or time requirements.
- Meet with clients and other professionals to discuss details of cases.
- Keep abreast of changes in the law and inform judges when cases are affected by such changes.
- Select jurors, argue motions, meet with judges, and question witnesses during the course of a trial.