Tuesday, 9 December 2014

List of non-traditional jobs for lawyers

Administrator
Arbitrator or mediator
Auditor
Business analyst
Buyer or procurement analyst
Career counsellor
Claims advisor
Compliance officer
Commercial loan administrator
Conference developer
Consumer advocate
Continuing legal education instructor
Contracts administrator
Corporate trainer
Director of career services at a university or  college
Editor
Employee benefits manager
Estate planning specialist
Ethics officer
Executive director of a non-profit organization
Financial aid administrator
Fundraiser
Immigration officer or consultant
Insurance broker
Investigator
Labour negotiator
Law librarian
Law professor
LSAT tutor
Legal correspondent for a newspaper or
magazine
Legal technology consultant
Lobbyist
Management consultant
Marketing or sales representative
Ombudsperson
Policy analyst
Political advisor
Paralegal instructor
Privacy law consultant
Probation officer
Project manager
Property developer or manager
Recruiter
Seminar leader
Speaker
Special events or meeting/conference planner
Sports agent
Writer or journalist

List of transferable legal skills


The following legal skills identified on Life After Law are valued in non-traditional jobs for lawyers:
Ability to work independently
Analytical thinking
Attention to detail
Awareness of risk or liability
Brainstorming
Budgeting
Communication
Conflict Resolution
Counselling
Creativity
Decision making
Discipline
Dissemination of information
Entrepreneurial
Fact analysis
Identification of issues
Innovation
Interpersonal skills
Interpretation of documents
Learning
Management
Mediation
Multi-Tasking
Negotiation
Organizational skills
Persuasion
Presentation skills
Prioritization
Problem Solving
Professionalism
Project Management
Public Speaking
Research
Sales
Self-Direction
Strategizing
Stress Management
Supervisory
Synthesis of information
Teamwork
Time Management
Troubleshooting
Writing

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