The office recommends not only using the counselors to create a plan of action, but also to review cover letters and r sum s since typically alumni haven t updated their r sum in a number of years. Alumni often don t realize that all resources in the Office of Legal Career Services are available for them to use, and the office is open on Saturdays. The office has also created a number of handouts addressing job search skills. In addition, alumni may obtain an I.D. and password for the LCS on-line jobs database, or review the same job listings in hard copy in the office. With thousands of dollars in debt, leaving the practice of law is frightening.
Many dissatisfied lawyers think the root of their unhappiness is the practice of law.
Before you consider changing careers completely, try changing firms, practice a different area of law or consider relocating to a different market. If you don t like rainmaking or client maintenance consider working for the government, going into public interest or working in house. There are many opportunities for lawyers who no longer want to practice law. John Grisham and Scott Turow are only two lawyers who ve left the courtroom to become best-selling authors. John F. Kennedy Jr. became the editor and founder of George Magazine.