5 Unconventional Careers for Law Grads
5 Unconventional Careers for Law Grads
1. Entrepreneurship
Being a lawyer you get glimpse into many industries and businesses” you see the risks, the consequences and rewards from the sidelines. It kind of prepares you for your own business at some level.”
One shall find a lot of common skills between an entrepreneur and a lawyer. Legal counsels do have some advantages when they start their own business. If you feel that you have some of these aptitudes, or you are at least ready to develop them, you could perhaps become a successful entrepreneur.
- Ability to convince others
- Foresight
- Research skills
- Market knowledge
- Leadership
- Ability to mitigate risks
- Self assessment and constant strive for improvement
2. Journalist
A journalist requires to be proactive, probing, argumentative and driven by logic. These qualities are highly developed in a lawyer as well. If you are someone who has a passion for writing or speaking and can convince people with your communications, it might just be the right field for you.
Nevertheless, if you are passionate regarding media or journalism, the options are endless. One could become a news anchor, host a legal show on the TV, become a legal correspondent, or become producer of ones own shows.
3. Policy Analyst
Policy analysts, acts as Chanakya to the king. If subjects similar to public administration and governance, abstract concepts, projections or making sense of statistics intrigue you, and you want to impact the governance and businesses in India at the policy making level, you may consider this as a career option.
4. Bloggers
Legal firms are banned from advertising as per the rules mentioned in the Advocates Act. Nevertheless, law firms these days apply smarter approaches to market themselves. Same is done through content marketing, where firms create relevant content on most of the current legal issues and post it on various portals. The traffic which firms generate out of it helps them to get leads to make better clients.
5. Teacher for competitive law exams
Existing as a teacher at the competitive law exams preparation institute is very rare, yet very rewarding. Although teaching is considered as a meticulous profession, it is not at all easy to connect with students and teach them as per their requirements. Knowledge is alone not sufficient, a passion for teaching is. Keep in mind, we all have that one faculty who knows a lot but is not able to deliver it. Teaching is less a profession, and more a passion to help others in the noblest way.