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By Neil Handwerker and Kimberly Fine on July 23, 2025 12:14 pm
When lawyers who have never worked in business transition to a nonlegal job, they may feel as if they have landed on another planet — in some good ways and some bad ways. Fortunately, the good far outweighs the bad.
In addition to placing job ads on the ex judicata job board, more and more companies are asking us to conduct individual searches. Typically, they are for more experienced lawyers — often a law firm partner — for a specific nonlegal job.
We recently placed a partner from an Am Law 10 firm with a Fortune 500 client in a non-practicing capacity. She noted two things right off the bat: