I decided biglaw wasn't for me after the 2009 crash and transitioned away from firm work. I currently have a business title, but everyone here also knows that I'm a lawyer. Half the legal questions I get are things I learned in Corps class, and the other half are statutory interpretation.
No one wants to argue about various shades of interpretation here. They want to know what the rules are so that they can follow them. I suspect that ends up being a common role for lawyers who aren't working in firms.
I was a corporate paralegal in the 80’s before I went to lawschool. I learned how to read state corporate statutes really well. I also spent a lot of time on the phone with Secretary of State offices because the lawyers hated to seem like they didn’t know an answer and made me call. Good training.
Oh, that is a good background. The transition from law school to work can be odd without something like that, because you go from a place where so many classes focus on different shades of meaning to one where a lot of people just want a definite answer about what they can and can't do.