Careers | Seton Hall Law: Alternative Careers

Anecdotes of attorneys who identified new legal career choices while staying true to their passions.

Also in West Academic Subscription. Job exploration and search advice aimed at students and recent grads. Includes sections on some specialized careers.

How to assess one's qualifications for an alternative career and identify potential employers at leading businesses. Suggestions on how to contact potential employers.

“Being a lawyer is not just a job, it’s an identity.” This book has a five part model of career satisfaction to help you determine your career identity. Also contains a self-assessment guide and a job values sorting exercise.

When and how to choose a nonlegal career. Detailed vignettes of non-traditional career paths taken by real people reinforce the advice.

A roadmap to transactional lawyering engaged in sharing, bartering, and exchanging to create cooperatives, social enterprises, commerce, land and housing relationships, and new approaches to intellectual property.

Steps to a successful career transition. Advice on how to be realistic about transition at any stage of one's legal career.