Where a legal consultant can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a legal consultant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Legal consultants advise a varied array of clients ranging from business, individuals, up to legal firms. They provide legal advisory outside courtrooms in relation to legal affairs which depend on the nature of the client. They advise in matters such as merging of multinationals, housing purchase, modification of contracts and its implications. They help clients in general to abide by the regulations and avoid committing illegal acts.
Also known as legal advisor, legal nurse consultant, city legal advisor, business law consultant, city legal adviser, legal adviser.
Professionals 37 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: corporate lawyer, 58%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A legal consultant needs 11 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- analyse legal enforceability communication, collaboration and creativity
- private law business, administration and law
- interpret law communication, collaboration and creativity
- advise on legal decisions communication, collaboration and creativity
- identify clients' needs communication, collaboration and creativity
- provide legal advice communication, collaboration and creativity
- legal terminology business, administration and law
- compile legal documents information skills
- ensure law application assisting and caring
- use consulting techniques communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a legal consultant does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- corporate lawyer 76% covered · difficulty 24.4
- mediator 56% covered · difficulty 43.9
- prosecutor 54% covered · difficulty 45.7
- judge 44% covered · difficulty 53.5
- intellectual property consultant 40% covered · difficulty 57.1
- notary 34% covered · difficulty 61.9
- lawyer linguist 32% covered · difficulty 64
- legal service manager 30% covered · difficulty 64.7
- tax advisor 30% covered · difficulty 65.3
- consumer rights advisor 27% covered · difficulty 67.9
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Legal consultant 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 legal consultant’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.