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A law degree can lead to many different career paths and often times it can be difficult for young attorneys to know which is best. For years Richard Brock, a lawyer and founding partner of American Legal Search, consulted attorneys about their careers and found the profession full of people who were unhappy.

“We were discovering that a high number of lawyers were dissatisfied with their chosen career paths and saying, ‘I really don’t like what I do every day when I go to work, but I don’t know what else is out there or how to get started’,” Brock said. “The only way to know [what job is right] is by trial and error, and that’s not a great career strategy.”

So he and his partner Dr. Duncan Husley, an industrial psychologist, decided to create an objective tool specifically for lawyers. In 2007, Brock and Hulsey enlisted a team of career councilors, lawyers, industrial psychologists and psychometric experts — people who measure the calculations of assessments — to develop an online proprietary assessment test.

The final product is LawFit.com — an online assessment of 235 questions that helps law students and lawyers make better career decisions. For $95, LawFit’s assessment matches a user’s interests, preferences and values with the most compatible career options. The user then receives a 25-page report which provides insight into key motivators and personality styles, identifies practice areas within the law that are a best fit, and identifies career fields outside the practice of law that are the best fit.

“If lawyers are not satisfied and really don’t like what they do when they go to work every day, that’s a tough life,” Brock said. “One reason we created this was to help folks in that situation to know that there are alternatives out there and this is a place to get started.”

Another one of Brock’s goals with LawFit is to help legal professionals find careers that make them happy.

“At the end of the day, someone is going to be more successful if they are in work that they enjoy, and they feel is valuable, and they can get satisfaction out of,” he said.

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