Lawyer → Corporate Counsel

This is a easy transition with a typical 8-month runway and 79% skill overlap. Expect a +24% salary change, with strongest hiring demand in USA, UK, Canada. Employers hiring today include Google, Meta, Shell. Focus your first 60 days on closing the gap in role-specific tooling and vocabulary.

1. 1Audit your Lawyer experience for transferable skills that map to Corporate Counsel.
2. 2Close the top skill gap: role-specific tooling.
3. 3Build 2–3 portfolio artifacts that demonstrate Corporate Counsel outcomes.
4. 4Reshape your resume and LinkedIn around Corporate Counsel keywords and outcomes, not job titles.
5. 5Run a targeted outreach loop to Corporate Counsel hiring managers at Google, Meta, Shell.

• ▸Why are you moving from Lawyer to Corporate Counsel?
• ▸Walk me through a Lawyer project where you applied skills relevant to Corporate Counsel.
• ▸Which parts of a Corporate Counsel role are new to you, and how are you closing that gap?
• ▸Where do you see yourself as a Corporate Counsel in 3 years?
• ▸Tell me about a stakeholder disagreement and how you resolved it.

• ▸Lead with a positioning line: "Lawyer transitioning to Corporate Counsel, focused on Contract Law and Compliance."
• ▸Reframe Lawyer accomplishments using Corporate Counsel vocabulary — outcomes, not tasks.
• ▸Surface 79% of overlapping skills at the top; put Lawyer-only work later.
• ▸Add a "Selected projects" section featuring 2 artifacts aligned to Corporate Counsel.
• ▸Quantify impact: dollars, users, uptime, cycle time — whatever a Corporate Counsel manager cares about.