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Real assistance
Does anyone know where the above can be found? There seem to be plethora of "consultants" happy to charge fees for telling me they agree that I want to do something less soul destroying than law. Given that most are ex-lawyers, this is clearly an alternative career option for them, but where are the recruiters who are looking to help lawyers become ex lawyers?
I don't need to pay to put together a collage telling me what I already know, but someone who specialises in placing ex-lawyer would get a call from me very fast. I cannot find the latter on this site, or anywhere else. I am feeling rather jaded, but any directions as to finding the above gratefully received.....
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Start your own business
If there is one thing I would impart in my experience of setting up a property business, it is to keep up the day job for as long as it's tenable. It means you're doing 2 jobs, one evening and weekends, but it is amazing how quickly and the extent you can get into arrears without a salary. Sounds obvious, but it is easy to carried away in the excitment and quit your day job while there is so much you can achieve in your own time (or surrepticiously!).
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Long hours and misery
I dont think anyone is as trapped on the treadmill as they think they are. It just takes a bit of bravery to get off, into what can often be a less prescribed professional life.
| Dawidn | 5 | 284 | Tom Sherwood |
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Insurance
Subject to a few exceptions, most notably AIG, generally speaking the insurance industry has weathered the storm of the financial crisis better than the banking sector. While investment returns were affected by declining stock markets earlier in the year, the hope is that as markets rise and with a relatively benign Atlantic Hurricane season so far many large insurance companies with a diversified book of business ought to post solid results for 2009.
| Elizabeth | 2 | 171 | Colin |
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Start your own firm
The first few months will be taken up with a lot of marketing to potential new clients and brand awareness in any case, and so a brief delay in picking up old contacts in order to comply with any restrictive period is not the end of the world, as you will be fully up and running then and possibly better placed to provide the kind of service they are used to.
| Administrator | 4 | 210 | Oliver Hunt |
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Teaching law
I suspect law schools will find themselves in the same position as universities - with demand being higher this year, as students work on gaining further skills to make the most of a time when getting a job is nigh on impossible. Of course, I guess it's all subject to students finding the necessary funding...!
| Chris | 2 | 166 | Beata |
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legal recruitment
The problem in this market is an over supply of candidates but precious few firms with active hiring requirements. The recruiters might well be as busy as ever representing numerous candidates needing or wanting to move firms but how fruitful this is for them is clearly a different matter. Firms that are bold enough to 'buy straw hats in winter' could very well gain some excellent talent, a near impossible feat when activity and demand are high.
| Rob | 3 | 185 | Joy |
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Taking US bar exams
Americans are a pretty focused bunch - it's almost like they don't notice there are other people around when they want something, but if you want to be an attorney in the US you have to do 4 years as an undergraduate followed by 3 years at Law School before sitting the Bar exam. So most are up to their eyeballs in debt. The Bar exam is, therefore, make or break for many.
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Study grants
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