What jobs are there after you've graduated Law School?

Question

When you are a lawyer, are there jobs that don't require you to plea in court.

I don't want to be the debating type. I'm more of a paper work type.

Answer 1

There are two main types of lawyers. Litigation and Transactional. Litigation lawyers deal with the courts (like suing each other). There's actually not that much court time unless you're in criminal law, but that's what they ultimately end up doing.

Transactional lawyers are the paper pushers. I used to do litigation, but now I'm transactional. I still have to go to court on occasion, but there's no real arguing anymore. For the most part, I just advise clients and draft documents and other things for them. Fits my personality more. My buddy would be bored to death. He's totally meant for the litigation job he has.

I used to work at the DA's. I was in court a lot. PD's in my county were about the same, altho they had less court time. Still a lot compared to most other lawyers tho. You should really check it out in person. Each office is different.

Answer 2

My father-in-law is in Real Estate. He doesn't do that much in court, about 95% paperwork. He also likes real estate because he says it's one of the few areas in law where everyone winds up happy afterwards. That is a pretty lucrative area, he gets a pretty good salary, but not huge, six figures, but it's about in the middle of salaries for law jobs.

The only legal job I know of that is 99.9% not in court is appellate work, where you write appellate briefs, and just read the trial cases and write. No legal job is ever guaranteed to never be in court, but appellate work is about the closest to being just on a computer, reading and writing all the time. No appointments, not many phone calls, not much client contact, just you and the computer. I used to work in the Public Defender's office though and the lawyers that went into that were mostly introverted and didn't mind being on a computer all day, so if you like to chat and be really social that is not a good job for you! That job does not pay that much as Real Estate, but you don't have to have trial experience, and also at least in the office I was in they allowed the lawyers to work at home and have flexible hours with part-time hours or full-time, so I think has a better quality of life.

My dh, also a lawyer, did an intership in the P.D.'s office btw, and that is highly recommended if you want to get an idea about jobs. You also might even work out something where you work some in the Appellate section/some in the Trial section, or at the very least talk to lawyers in each section.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

You should be a secretary instead of a lawyer.LOL