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Compliance, and technically a lot of roles in the corporate world. But as I’m sure you know, once you move into jobs where a JD is not actually required, the market stops pricing you as a lawyer. Salaries there are usually far lower than in house roles, which themselves are already meaningfully lower than biglaw, at least to start.
The brutal truth people don’t like to hear is that the whole “a JD opens a lot of doors” thing is only true up to a point. A JD opens doors within the legal industry and a handful of adjacent roles. Outside of that, it’s not some universally portable credential the way people sometimes assume. Back in the day, you could hop out of a law firm right into an IB role on Wall Street without that much effort. Things are a bit different these days, especially without an MBA. Once you leave the legal market, employers mostly care about your actual functional experience, not the fact that you went to law school. So if you’re trying to pivot out entirely, you probably want to start thinking about the other parts of your background you can lean on (your undergrad major, any pre-law work experience, technical skills, industry exposure, etc) and position yourself around those rather than the JD itself.
Compliance. Sometimes the salary is just as high a in house counsel positions.
Maybe like middle management /project management
Management/strategy Consulting but the hours can be just as long. Also AI has done some work on the industry as it has on every other industry.