Making the Jump: Career Alternatives for Lawyers

"Making the Jump helps lawyers contemplating or in the midst of a career change. It highlights resources, provides inspiration, and encourages lawyers who are unhappy in the traditional practice of law to reach for their dreams! Making the Jump also highlights the author’s personal journey through the career change process."

Author: Karen is a Massachusetts attorney currently working part-time in a “nontraditional” position for the Office of the General Counsel at the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, where she coordinates an internal multidisciplinary advisory board which reviews recent case law and suggests policy changes and practice improvements.

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Recent Posts from Making the Jump: Career Alternatives for Lawyers

Making The Jump Plans Tentative Recovery
Sometimes, life can throw some unexpected twists at us that change our plans. For me, it’s a year (well, over a year now) of big changes in my life that have caused me to rethink…
Online Career Tools: Career Values Activity for Lawyers Considering Career Change
The corporate placement firm, Stewart, Cooper & Coon has an online version of Richard Knowdell's Career Values Card Sort. The Career Values Card Sort involves sorting a set of cards with 54 defined values into…
Lawyer Depression: Part 2 - How Depression Can Affect Our Career Choices
Unfortunately, the pessimism which makes some lawyers miserable in their careers can impact attempts to change careers as well. In 2001, career counselor Robert C. Chope wrote an article (abstract, full article pdf) identifying several…
Career Fun: The Career of Santa Claus
Does Santa Claus have a terrific career or a terrible one? Making the Jump takes a look at articles evaluating Santa's career.
Lawyer Depression: Part 1 — The Roundup
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an article about the alarming rate of depression among lawyers. The Journal cites the statistic that “19% of lawyers suffer depression at any given time, compared with 6.7%…
Career Quick Links Side Blog
If you visit my blog, you will notice a new mini-blog in the side bar. Career Quick Links is a collection of links on careers, career change and the law. I plan to regularly update…
Personal Finance and Career Change
Personal finance is one of the major obstacles that can keep lawyers from changing careers, or even taking a different job within the legal profession. A recent article in the ABA's Student Lawyer magazine states…
Technical Aspects of Blogging
For someone who is interested in Internet technology, like me, the technical aspects of blogging can be as interesting as writing the content, at least when you are using a regular domain host and Wordpress.…
Renaissance Souls and Career Change
As part of my research prior to starting this blog, I started reading some law blogs that I had not read before. One that has particularly inspired me is Stephanie West Allen’s idealawg. I was…
Lawyers and Career Change: How I Hope to Help Through This Blog
When I began the slow process of career change about a year ago, I didn't think that I had anything useful to say to lawyers contemplating career change. For the most part, I felt disillusioned,…