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Lawyers Choose Non-Legal Careers

published December 21, 2012

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In most large corporations the number of legally trained persons employed in management and administrative posts far exceeds that of the legal department.

There are several reasons for this phenomenon.


These individuals in non-legal posts had consciously opted for a career in business management rather than the traditional practice of law.

Legal training was viewed as a valuable tool to up-grade job performance. In fact, a substantial number of these persons had obtained their legal training while on the job, and in a few instances, the company felt that legal training was so important to job performance that it had underwritten the cost of law school education for promising employees.

In some of the companies, management experience is essential if the individual is to receive consideration for top executive posts, and some of the individuals had transferred from the legal department specifically in order to acquire this experience.

The very diversity of corporate positions held by those with legal training gives solid evidence of the vast range of opportunity open to those who decide that a career in business management is more compatible with their interests and abilities than traditional practice. If you are one of these, you will want to know something about what legally trained persons are presently doing within their corporations and businesses, and what areas are relatively unexplored as yet.

Because of the diversity of corporate structures, the various jobs described are grouped by function rather than by specific department titles. For example, in some corporations the tax department is considered a part of the law department, while in others it is classified as a financial operation. Thus, using the function approach in your job search will help insure that interesting positions are not foreclosed simply because the particular department designation used by the organization does not match the one you specify.

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Harrison is the founder of BCG Attorney Search and several companies in the legal employment space that collectively gets thousands of attorneys jobs each year. Harrison’s writings about attorney careers and placement attract millions of reads each year. Harrison is widely considered the most successful recruiter in the United States and personally places multiple attorneys most weeks. His articles on legal search and placement are read by attorneys, law students and others millions of times per year.

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published December 21, 2012

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