Where a lawyer linguist can go next

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

• localiser 34% covered · difficulty 70
• prosecutor 34% covered · difficulty 62.8
• scopist 32% covered · difficulty 61.4
• legal consultant 32% covered · difficulty 64
• translator 31% covered · difficulty 74.3

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A lawyer linguist needs 14 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

• ensure consistency of translation works in multiple target languages communication, collaboration and creativity
• follow translation quality standards management skills
• improve translated texts communication, collaboration and creativity
• translate texts communication, collaboration and creativity
• use computer-aided translation working with computers
• translate language concepts communication, collaboration and creativity
• analyse legal evidence information skills
• legal terminology business, administration and law
• linguistics arts and humanities
• compile legal documents information skills

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a lawyer linguist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

• translator 56% covered · difficulty 44.9
• localiser 55% covered · difficulty 46.1
• translation agency manager 50% covered · difficulty 51.1

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Lawyer linguist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a lawyer linguist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.