Counseling and Career Center

A Juris Doctorate is widely considered as one of the most flexible graduate degrees available because above all else it is supposed to teach students how to think and write clearly, which are skills that are useful in many areas of life. Because of this, there are many people who choose to pursue a non-legal career. The following is a list adapted from a survey of 34,000 law school graduates of ABA accredited law schools who accepted non-legal positions in business, education, government and industry in recent years. Though the list is not exhaustive, it gives an idea of how broad the market is for someone with a JD.

Arbitration Specialist
Architect
Assistant Director of Admissions
Assistant to Senior VP for Finance and Administration
Aviation Safety Inspector
Better Business Bureau Manager
Beverage Distributor
Campaign Compliance Organization
Campus Police Officer
Cancer Researcher
Carpentry
Child Advocacy
Church Pastor
Computer-Aided Litigation
Construction Management
Counseling Troubled Teens
Crop Analyzer
Day Trader
Director of Gift Planning
Engineering Consulting
Executive and Legal Recruiting
Flight Attendant
Grant Writer for Social Service Agency
High School Principal
Hospital Risk Management
Health care consulting
Industrial engineer
Legal Publishing
Legal Web Design Firm
Lobbying and Association Management
Manager of a Bookstore
Musician with Symphony
Owner of Horse Breeding Farm
Partner/Director of summer camp
Peace Corps
Pediatric Dentistry
Piano teacher
Podiatrist
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization     Service
Police department manager
President's staff
Press Officer to mayor
Privacy Officer in Medical Clinic
Purchasing consultant
School nurse
Social science research analyst
Speech pathologist
Taxi driver
Teaching ESL to preschoolers
Ticket brokering