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.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 73%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 12difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 99required or supplementary
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
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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
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a lawyer already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.