Which Areas To Transition To For Attorneys Who Feel Burned Out
[00:00:00] I've been practicing criminal defense for 15 years for murder cases and molestation cases, I'm feeling burned out. What areas of law have you seen criminal lawyers transitioned into?
There are lots of areas of law that you can transition into. I was actually looking at some criminal attorneys this morning and I can see how you would be burned out doing that. You have a couple of different options. You could certainly transition to the government. That would be one. The other one would be you could transition to litigation. There are some practice areas that are different types of litigation, or you can do is to learn different types of litigation. There are some practice areas that people pick up fairly quickly.
You can pick up immigration law. You may want to transition into white collar litigation. Those are some things that I would recommend. The other option too, as a criminal attorney if you've done this, you always can probably teach in law school.
Criminal defense law is its own kind of law. It's not the same type of litigation as commercial litigation. You certainly can do different types of insurance work and things. Or, you may just want to work in a different type of practice setting doing criminal law.
It's [00:01:00] a good question. You always want to look at what other people have done. And, look up all the criminal attorneys you've seen and that have left. It's very common for people to do other things.
