Career Diagnostic
A JD-specific, PhD-validated assessment that maps attorney traits to 25 business careers, helping lawyers identify practical paths before choosing courses, coaching, or job targets.
Leaving legal practice can feel isolating, expensive, and hard to explain to business employers. Career Change Program Services for Professional Transitions from law connects JDs with career diagnostics, coaching, business-skills courses, a nonlegal job board, peer community, and executive search pathways. Built by Ex Judicata, the platform helps lawyers translate legal experience into credible, compelling next-career opportunities.
Structured tools, coaching, education, community, job access, and search support for JDs moving beyond legal practice.
A JD-specific, PhD-validated assessment that maps attorney traits to 25 business careers, helping lawyers identify practical paths before choosing courses, coaching, or job targets.
Career Corner connects transitioning lawyers with vetted specialists for CV rewrites, LinkedIn positioning, interview prep, leadership development, and personal-brand support tailored to nonlegal roles.
A vetted employment platform where every posted opportunity is a nonlegal role suited to JD talent, with filters for function, industry, seniority, and location.
On-demand courses and webinars help lawyers build business fluency in finance, analytics, leadership, and destination industries such as wealth management, compliance, sales, and strategy.
The EXJ Community gives Non-Practicing Lawyers and still-practicing lawyers a peer network for shared insight, industry connections, member directories, and transition support.
EXJ Search supports senior JDs pursuing executive, GC-adjacent, compliance, risk, advisory, board-secretary, and business leadership roles through retained-search mandates.
Start with the EXJ Career Diagnostic to map attorney traits to specific business careers. Instead of guessing from broad alternative-career lists, lawyers receive structured direction that helps prioritize realistic paths before investing time in applications or courses.
Real placements and first-person JD stories show credible paths from legal practice into business leadership.
Ex Judicata gives lawyers a structured path beyond traditional legal practice.
Purpose-built for JDs seeking fulfilling nonlegal careers, not generic career-change advice.
Founders bring 75+ combined years across legal recruiting, business education, and publishing.
Diagnostics, courses, coaching, community, job board, and search work together in one platform.
The platform has reached 500,000+ users and serves lawyers transitioning across the US.
Built by founders who understand law-to-business transitions.
Co-Founder
Neil Handwerker is the Co-Founder of Ex Judicata, the world's only comprehensive employment platform dedicated to helping lawyers transition from legal practice to fulfilling nonlegal careers. After earning his JD, Neil briefly practiced law before recognizing it wasn't the right fit and pivoting to a career in business. That firsthand experience became the foundation of his mission. He co-founded Fulcrum Information Services, which grew into a market leader in management education for outside counsel, in-house lawyers, and C-suite executives. Neil later became a seasoned legal recruiter before launching Ex Judicata in 2022 alongside his long-time business partner Kimberly Fine. With over 75 years of combined industry experience between the two founders, Neil brings deep expertise in legal recruiting, career transitions, and platform building to every aspect of the company.
Co-Founder
Kimberly Fine is the Co-Founder of Ex Judicata and a seasoned business leader with an MBA and decades of experience at the intersection of legal services and publishing. As the long-time business partner of Neil Handwerker, Kim helped build Fulcrum Information Services into a market leader in management education for outside counsel, in-house lawyers, and C-suite executives. She subsequently held prominent roles at several leading legal publications, deepening her expertise in the legal industry and the career challenges facing JDs. In 2022, Kim co-founded Ex Judicata to create a first-of-its-kind platform connecting lawyers seeking nonlegal career paths with organizations eager to hire JD talent. Her business acumen and media savvy have been instrumental in growing the platform to over 500,000 unique users and launching the groundbreaking EXJ Community.
A career changer program helps professionals evaluate new career paths, close skill gaps, and reposition their experience for different industries. For lawyers, Ex Judicata’s program is built around the specific challenges of leaving legal practice: translating JD skills into business language, understanding nonlegal roles, preparing for interviews, and connecting with employers that value legal training outside traditional practice.
Get practical guidance before choosing your next move.
Dedicated exclusively to careers beyond legal practice.
Major milestone reached by January 2026.
Combined founder experience across law and business.
Reach out to Ex Judicata to discuss career diagnostics, coaching, job access, executive search, or employer partnerships for JD talent.
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You can also send us a quick email at [email protected].