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O*NET detailed work activityRepresent the interests of clients in legal proceedings
Stays humanBe there for people
5 jobs10 tasks
This depends on human connection: empathy, trust, being physically present and responding to someone in real time. People can tell the difference.
Part of Present information in legal proceedings, under the O*NET work activity group Communicating with People Outside the Organization. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 10 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Represent clients in court or before government agencies.
- Present and summarize cases to judges and juries.
- Present evidence to defend clients or prosecute defendants in criminal or civil litigation.
- Probate wills and represent and advise executors and administrators of estates.
- Act as agent, trustee, guardian, or executor for businesses or individuals.
- Represent clients before taxing authorities and provide support during litigation involving financial issues.
- Represent jurisdictions in the legislative or administrative approval of land development projects.
- Call upon witnesses to testify at hearings.
- Participate in court proceedings.