Helping Lawyers Identify Alternative Career Options

Lawyer Career Consulting DC helps lawyers identify alternative careers that match their interests, skills and motivations, and that also meet practical, economic needs.

Lawyer Career Consulting DC helps lawyers develop new careers. The career assessment takes into account what lawyers already have in mind:

• "I’ve always wanted to start my own business."
• "I can’t stand having a supervisor. I need to run my own show."
• "My dream job is to operate a bed and breakfast. I already have a name for it."
• "I’ve come up with this invention that . . ."
• "I’ve always loved to develop Websites, but I never thought of doing it as a profession."
• "People are always telling me their problems. I’m always happy to listen to them."
• "I’m always drawn to teaching something to people – usually kids."
• "Every chance I get, I make music. Often I hear lyrics in my head."
• "I love to write -- short stories, poetry, anything. I write books in my mind . . ."
• "I need work that involves a lot of contact with people. I can’t stand working alone."
• "I have no patience for people. I need to work by myself."
• "I’m naturally competitive. I need work that channels my ambition."
• "I want to earn a lot of money. I need money to pay for travel."
• "I need flexibility in my work hours, and plenty of time at home with my kids."
• "I need to do work that makes a difference in the world."?

In Lawyer Career Consulting DC, finding a new career is like solving a mystery:

Gathering Data: Through a series of highly focused and intensive conversations, and using fact-gathering tools and resources (such as vocational tests), you will gather data about your interests, skills and temperament.

• "Interests" are Most Important: Of greatest importance are your interests, as demonstrated over time by what you do, or like to do. Your skills are likely to be compatible with your interests.
• Begin With What You Know: An essential starting point will be what you already know about yourself, based on your life experience.
• Looking for Patterns: Lawyer Career Consulting DC will help you find a pattern or "theme" to your interests and your life experience that fits the skills and requirements of a particular profession.

Lawyer Career Consulting DC can help you assess thoughtfully the many factors involved in a decision to leave the practice of law:

• Your original motivations for entering law school;
• Your positive and negative experiences in law school;
• Aspects of legal work you enjoyed, and others you did not;
• The intensity of your unhappiness at work;
• Physical symptoms that may reflect your unhappiness;
• Dissatisfaction in your personal life that may affect your work;
• The impact of factors specific to your present job;
• Current influences of a spouse or life partner;
• Competitive and financial pressures;
• Your age and personal health;
• Your personal values and temperament;
• The degree of autonomy and personal freedom that you feel at this stage in your life.

Lawyer Career Consulting DC helps you make sense of your life experience, and applies information about your knowledge, skills and interests to the task of selecting of a new career.