Transitioning from Law to other fields

HappyAlumnus
Tue, 16 Jun 2015 01:51:25 +0000

I don’t have anything to compare it to, but as a lawyer, very few of my friends from law school are still practicing law, at least in law firms, and many have moved to unrelated fields. There are two ways of moving from law to non-law:

1. Finding a job in a company as a lawyer, and moving within the company to a non-legal job. (Past bosses have done that; it usually requires having senior management move you from one job to another.)

2. Just moving completely from a legal job in one firm or company to a non-legal job in another company. That can be done, but it can take a lot of interviews.

It can be tough to move, cold-turkey, from a lawyer job to something else, but anything is explainable in interviews.

Keep in mind that we lawyers have lots of contact with businesses- usually clients or companies on whose boards we serve- and those businesses have career options for us.