- Based on 23 Jobtrees users who were a Legal Counsel in their career, on average, they have 3.32 years of experience and 2 jobs prior to this one. They spend 3.9 years on average in this job building experience and earn $142K per year before moving on.
- 0% of Jobtrees users moved to another job with this same title in their next career step. The most common career steps after Legal Counsel are Legal Intern, Associate Attorney and Associate. Legal Intern, the most common next career step, is a less experienced role which is common to see in career paths as titles aren't synonymous across companies (higher title doesn't always mean higher pay or larger scope) and not all job seekers are looking to increase their responsibility in their next career step. While Legal Intern is from the same job family, Legal, there are other common opportunities outside this discipline that Jobtrees users are taking as shown by Associate, also being a common career path from Legal Counsel.
- Find more insights below about this specific career path based on our Jobtrees users' experience.
Interactive Career Path Tool – Plan the path to your next job
All the insights below are based on Jobtrees users’ actual career paths, aggregated together, instantaneously, to show you the real and unique most common career progression for each role.
Explore the ways our users are moving between roles. Apply filters. Press all the buttons. You’ll be amazed at what you find out.
The roles above are the most common next steps in our users’ career paths.
Use the + button and watch the ‘branches grow’. It adds another level of potential career steps based on the most common paths taken by Jobtrees’ users.
The roles below are the most common previous steps in our users’ career paths.
Use the + button and watch the ‘roots grow’. It adds another level of potential previous career steps based on the most common paths taken by Jobtrees’ users.Read insights on these paths here
Info on Jobtree buttons and symbols
Understand more about the career path
How can I become a
- The most common career steps to get to Legal Counsel are Associate Attorney, Legal Intern and Associate based on actual career paths reported to Jobtrees.
- While Associate Attorney is the most common, there is no specific role leading to Legal Counsel that is an overwhelmingly common path.
- Another characteristic of the Legal Counsel career path is that experience within the same job family as this role isn't common and as a result likely not necessary.
- This shows there are many potential paths to becoming a Legal Counsel so focusing on translatable skills is likely more important than a specific role.
- This is a Mid role meaning if you don’t have significant work experience and likely also experience in a closely related field, you need to start more than one or two steps away from this role in planning your path. Consider associate attorney or legal intern as these are the most popular career starting points for Jobtrees users that led to legal counsel. For a quicker path to this senior role title, consider looking at smaller companies as they have less layers to get to these more senior titles. The scope of the role and likely the pay though will still likely compare more similarly to a less experienced role title at a larger company. This is partly why you see some unexpected experience level titles leading to this role.
- While Associate Attorney is from the same job family, Legal as Legal Counsel, you don't necessarily need direct experience in this discipline show by Associate also leading to Legal Counsel.
What should I know about the career path
- The most common degrees or certifications earned by Jobtrees users on the path to become Legal Counsel are Doctoral degree In Juris Doctor, Bachelor Of Arts (b.a.) In Political Science, and Master Of Science (m.sc.) In Biotechnology. There may be other specific certification requirements to land a job with this role, so please make sure to check local regulations as well.
- Career paths aren't linear with people often returning to a prior role which is what you see with Associate Attorney being on the path to and from Legal Counsel. This is common when people move companies where the title is the same as a past one but the scope may be different but also is commonly driven by them choosing to return to a function they fit well with.
- Legal Counsel is part of the Legal job family which has a limited number of unique role types (53) within that discipline. Choosing to pursue a role within this family likely will mean that you will need to look outside of your discipline to find new roles and so should focus on related skills as part of that search.