Do you keep the train on the rails?
The legal sector is far from monolithic. A wide array of skills, talents, and legal professional roles keep our legal system (and the economy and society that depends upon it) running:
FBI, DEA, ATF, Secret Service, and other federal agents moving into the private sector
State police, military police, and other law enforcement moving into the private sector
Paralegals
Executive and legal assistants
Legal secretaries
Legal and executive recruiters (both retained and contingency)
Human resources professionals
Law firm IT professionals
Data privacy and data security experts
FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) responders
Law firm marketing professionals
Law firm directors and managers
Legal industry vendors and sales representatives
Social workers
Judicial staff
Court administrators and other personnel
Private and corporate investigators
Collections agents
Process servers
Bond agents
Insurance claims representatives and processors
Contract managers
Compliance experts
Like lawyers, you work in the legal sector. However, the best career advice for lawyers isn’t the same as the best career advice for an FBI agent or a law firm marketer or a legal assistant. The best résumé for an attorney isn’t the same as the best résumé for a police officer or a court reporter or a paralegal.
Whether you’re law firm management and marketing, law enforcement, court staff, or litigation support, your work is fundamentally different. And so your career options and challenges, as well as your career coaching and résumé writing needs, as also different...
A retiring FBI agent is exploring investigative, corporate security, and other options in the private sector. How does she translate her extensive experience and expertise in the federal government for the demands the multinational corporate world?
An IT project manager is pursuing law firm options. How does he bridge the gap between his technical experience in corporations and the particulars of the law firm environment?
A newly certified paralegal is pursuing his first paralegal position. How does he decide which law firms will most give him the most hands-on experience and the most compensation? How does he position himself to find and go after those opportunities?
*Samples are composites designed to protect the identities of individuals.
You need—and deserve—career advice, résumés, cover letters, and more that are designed for your unique needs.
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Here on Bryce Legal, you’ll find a lot of practical information about what’s happening in the legal sector—including trends in hiring, law firm management, legal technology, alternative service providers, and the delivery of legal services—that impact the career options of not only attorneys, but also other legal professionals.
Although Shauna C. Bryce only directly works with lawyers who want to practice law, she has developed a network of professional résumé writers and career coaches to help the millions of other legal professionals like you. Just let us know what you need so that we can help match you with career coach or résumé writer.