Lawyers

Represent clients in criminal and civil litigation and other legal proceedings, draw up legal documents, or manage or advise clients on legal transactions. May specialize in a single area or may practice broadly in many areas of law.

On the job, you would:

• Interpret laws, rulings and regulations for individuals and businesses.
• Analyze the probable outcomes of cases, using knowledge of legal precedents.
• Gather evidence to formulate defense or to initiate legal actions by such means as interviewing clients and witnesses to ascertain the facts of a case.

Education

• doctoral degree
• professional degree

Safety and Government

• law and government

Arts and Humanities

• English language

Business

• customer service
• administrative services

Engineering and Technology

• computers and electronics

Basic Skills

• talking to others
• listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions

Problem Solving

• noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Social

• bringing people together to solve differences
• talking people into changing their minds or their behavior

Enterprising

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

• Integrity
• Attention to Detail
• Dependability
• Achievement/Effort
• Stress Tolerance
• Analytical Thinking

Verbal

• communicate by speaking
• listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

• use rules to solve problems
• make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information

Attention

• pay attention to something without being distracted