Where a lawyer can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a lawyer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Lawyers provide legal advice to clients and act on their behalf in legal proceedings and in compliance with the law. They research for, interpret and study cases to represent their clients in a variety of settings such as courts and administrative boards. They create arguments on behalf of their clients for lawsuits in different contexts with the aim of finding a legal remedy.
Also known as social law lawyer, barrister, medical lawyer, industrial property lawyer, procurement law lawyer, administrative law lawyer, information technology lawyer, fiscal lawyer, agricultural lawyer, property law lawyer, property law attorney, employment lawyer.
Professionals 99 skills on file 12 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: court jury coordinator, 73%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
- court jury coordinator 73% covered · difficulty 27.9
- justice of the peace 70% covered · difficulty 32.8
- mediator 67% covered · difficulty 38.1
- supreme court judge 64% covered · difficulty 39.6
- judge 62% covered · difficulty 41.8
- legal policy officer 57% covered · difficulty 44.2
- case administrator 55% covered · difficulty 43
- intellectual property consultant 54% covered · difficulty 44.5
- legal assistant 51% covered · difficulty 47.2
- court clerk 51% covered · difficulty 47.1
- police detective 50% covered · difficulty 49.6
- police inspector 47% covered · difficulty 50.9
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A lawyer 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.
- represent clients in courts communication, collaboration and creativity
- negotiate lawyer's fee communication, collaboration and creativity
- negotiate in legal cases communication, collaboration and creativity
- present legal arguments communication, collaboration and creativity
- private law business, administration and law
- interpret law communication, collaboration and creativity
- present arguments persuasively communication, collaboration and creativity
- analyse legal evidence information skills
- legal case management business, administration and law
- compile legal documents information skills
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a lawyer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
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Lawyer 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’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.