Best Jobs For Former Legal Assistants [2023]

It’s tough to be a legal assistant nowadays, and more and more of them are losing confidence in their own profession.

While the amount of people majoring in courses preparing people for a job as a legal assistant isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become legal assistants in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many legal assistants no longer sticking around, this begs the question:

What are they all doing now?

We were curious, so we looked through the resumes of former legal assistants to see what kind of jobs they were moving into after leaving the field. There were thousands of answers, so we made the cutoff at the top 100 jobs.

But given that there are some very surprising and interesting items on this list, we’ve decided to highlight a few of those instead.

Best Jobs For Former LEGAL ASSISTANTS

Some of these items are admittedly more attractive than one another as far as actually working the job goes, but one way or another, you’ve got to admit they’re eye-catching.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former LEGAL ASSISTANTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Paralegal	5.94%
2	Administrative Assistant	4.46%
3	Legal Secretary	1.95%
4	Office Manager	1.74%
5	Customer Service Representative	1.39%
6	Attorney	1.2%
7	Executive Assistant	1.19%
8	Law Clerk	1.18%
9	Litigation Paralegal	1.14%
10	Internship	1.05%
11	Associate	0.89%
12	Sales Associate	0.87%
13	Legal Extern	0.79%
14	Associate Attorney	0.75%
15	Case Manager	0.65%
16	Office Assistant	0.64%
17	Receptionist	0.61%
18	Volunteer	0.57%
19	Senior Paralegal	0.55%
20	Substitute Teacher	0.5%
21	Assistant Manager	0.44%
22	Paralegal/office Manager	0.43%
23	Research Assistant	0.43%
24	Office Administrator	0.42%
25	Teacher	0.41%
26	Coordinator	0.38%
27	Manager	0.38%
28	Project Manager	0.38%
29	Secretary	0.37%
30	Server	0.37%
31	Human Resources Coordinator	0.36%
32	Cashier	0.36%
33	Owner	0.36%
34	Contract Attorney	0.35%
35	Assistant Office Manager	0.34%
36	Consultant	0.34%
37	Specialist	0.32%
38	Assistant	0.32%
39	Contracts Administrator	0.31%
40	Executive Legal Assistant	0.3%
41	Executive Administrative Assistant	0.29%
42	Legal Secretary/paralegal	0.29%
43	Sales Representative	0.29%
44	Operations Manager	0.28%
45	Team Leader	0.28%
46	Contractor-Paralegal	0.27%
47	Analyst	0.27%
48	Project Coordinator	0.25%
49	Corporate Paralegal	0.24%
50	Account Manager	0.23%
51	Administrator	0.23%
52	Supervisor	0.22%
53	General Counsel	0.19%
54	Recruiter	0.19%
55	General Manager	0.19%
56	Office Manager And Legal Assistant	0.19%
57	Human Resources Assistant	0.18%
58	Staff Attorney	0.18%
59	Owner/operator	0.17%
60	Real Estate Paralegal	0.17%
61	Program Coordinator	0.17%
62	Senior Administrative Assistant	0.17%
63	Paralegal Specialist	0.16%
64	Clerk	0.16%
65	Marketing Coordinator	0.16%
66	Bankruptcy Paralegal	0.16%
67	Accounts Payable Clerk	0.16%
68	Executive Assistant To Chief Executive Officer	0.16%
69	Vice President	0.16%
70	Billing Specialist	0.16%
71	Account Executive	0.16%
72	Personal Assistant	0.16%
73	Student Attorney	0.15%
74	Senior Legal Assistant	0.15%
75	Document Reviewer	0.15%
76	Writer And Editor	0.15%
77	Business Analyst	0.15%
78	Processor	0.15%
79	Claim Processor	0.15%
80	Store Manager	0.14%
81	Medical Assistant	0.14%
82	Administrative Specialist	0.14%
83	Property Manager	0.14%
84	Customer Service Trainer	0.14%
85	Administrative Coordinator	0.14%
86	Compliance Analyst	0.14%
87	Contracts Manager	0.14%
88	File Clerk	0.14%
89	Attorney At Law	0.13%
90	Teller	0.13%
91	Marketing Manager	0.13%
92	Customer Service Specialist	0.13%
93	Human Resources Manager	0.13%
94	Business Manager	0.13%
95	Partner	0.12%
96	Front Desk Receptionist	0.12%
97	Pharmacist Technician	0.12%
98	Litigation Legal Assistant	0.12%
99	Sales Consultant	0.12%
100	Compliance Specialist	0.12%

Most Common Jobs For Former LEGAL ASSISTANTS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a legal assistant would have or being a stepping stone to a different career.

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — they’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former legal assistants to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former LEGAL ASSISTANTS

Using resume information from our database of over 7 million resumes, we looked at all resumes that listed legal assistant under their work history. Then we looked at which jobs showed up on their work histories following their stints as a legal assistant, sorting them by their most frequent.

That’s how we made the initial ranked list.

To make our list of most interesting jobs, we looked through the ranked list to see if any positions:

Showed up in fewer than 1% of all new jobs
And, were not part of the 100 most common jobs in our database

Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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