Life after law - sources of advice?

[CloudsandChimneys]

A combination of menopause anxiety, family commitments and some professional setbacks mean I’ve reached the end of the road in my career as a lawyer.

In my current in-house role, the work/life balance isn’t bad, but I simply can’t cope any more with the stress of providing advice and the fear of getting it wrong and the fall out from that and so just want to move altogether from working as a practising lawyer.

Does anyone know of any consultants/career coaches who might help me work through alternative career options? Or has anyone done similar, and is willing to share your wisdom? 😀

Thank you!

A hopeful bump for the weekend crowd…

There was a thread on Mumsnet not so long ago about a lawyer looking for a career change. You might be able to google find it with some key words. My friend who left is now a government ombudsman and another friend works for a charity but took a massive pay cut.

Thanks Turmerictolly, I will take a look.

I’ve seen quite a lot of posts about moving from private practice into in-house, but a bit less generally about leaving law altogether. I want to try to work through transferable skills and understand how they may work in other roles/sectors, but finding it all a bit overwhelming to be honest.

Anything research based or policy creation will suit your skills.

Career Analysts in London are ones I’ve used - albeit some years ago. They will help you look at transferable skills and suggest a lot of options, not cheap but worth it.

There are quite a few roles where legal training and background can be useful but if you want to get out of law altogether - and I completely understand why - then you may want to think about retraining in some way.

We used Morisby when DS had no idea what he wanted to do work wise. I believe they also help adults.

I’d recommend Jan Bowen from Quiver Consulting. Has delivered coaching for Law Society of Scotland and senior execs.