If you find yourself wondering whether practicing law is the right career path for you, you're not alone. Occasionally, students reach graduation and realize "Well, that was interesting but I don't think practicing law is right for me. What now?"
Here are some of the other professions you could pursue with a JD:
- Academic administration
- Law librarian (firm, corporate, public, court, academic) or freelance legal research specialist
- Non-profit management
- Corporations
- regulation specialist/trainer
- Civil Rights-related positions, such as ADA, Affirmative action or Civil Rights coordinators/specialists
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Banking & finance - brokerages, pension funds, insurance companies
- Court administration
From the law library collection:
- What can you do with a law degree? : a lawyer's guide to career alternatives inside, outside & around the law / Deborah Arron
- Should you really be a lawyer? : the guide to smart career choices before, during & after law school / Deborah Schneider & Gary Belsky
- Nonlegal careers for lawyers / by Gary A. Munneke, William D. Henslee, Ellen S. Wayne
- Running from the law : why good lawyers are getting out of the legal profession / Deborah Arron
- America's greatest places to work with a law degree : and how to make the most of any job, no matter where it is! / by Kimm Alayne Walton
- JD preferred! : legal career alternatives / Federal Reports, Inc.
- Career opportunities in law and the legal industry / Susan Echaore-McDavid
Update 10/28/08: Also check out Explore Career Options Within the Law from The Complete Lawyer.
NEW DU Law Librarian Fellows Program
"The Library and Information Science Program in the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver and its partners, the Westminster Law Library and the Sturm College of Law, will recruit and educate ten new law librarians, known as the Law Librarian Fellows (LLF), thanks to a grant of $999,360 from the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)... the law librarianship students will participate actively as members of the Rural and Small Practice Attorney Library Support Center (Support Center) at DU. They will be assigned a list of clients and provide legal reference, document retrieval, and other services under the guidance of WLL law librarians. Clients will include rural attorneys, academic and public libraries with legal collections, rural government agencies, and non-governmental legal organizations serving low-income individuals and families."
Program summary by Patty Wellinger. Read her article on law librarianship and the new fellow program.
Press release: $999,360 in federal aid received from Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program
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