Job Board
Browse vetted nonlegal roles built for JDs, with filters by industry, function, seniority, and location across business, nonprofit, government, academic, and advisory career paths.
Explore nonlegal job paths built for JDs who are ready to leave legal practice. Ex Judicata helps lawyers identify business-fit roles, build credible career materials, strengthen finance and analytics skills, and access vetted opportunities through a platform designed specifically for the law-to-business transition.
Explore JD-focused job search, coaching, education, community, and executive-search support for careers beyond legal practice.
Browse vetted nonlegal roles built for JDs, with filters by industry, function, seniority, and location across business, nonprofit, government, academic, and advisory career paths.
Take a 20–30-minute JD-specific assessment that maps attorney traits to business career paths and helps prioritize webinars, coaching, and target roles.
Work with vetted Career Corner specialists on career direction, CVs, LinkedIn profiles, interviews, personal branding, reverse recruiting, and leadership development for nonlegal roles.
Rewrite legal credentials for business hiring, including ATS-tailored resumes, LinkedIn positioning, cover-letter templates, executive bios, and personal-brand messaging for target industries.
Prepare for behavioral, competency-based, case, and executive-search interviews with mock sessions, recorded feedback, STAR practice, and coaching tailored to JD career pivots.
Strengthen business credibility with Financial Fluency, data analytics foundations, vertical career-pivot webinars, executive education, and board-track programs designed for lawyers.
Start with the EXJ Career Diagnostic to identify which nonlegal business careers align with your attorney traits, experience, and goals. This helps replace vague career-change anxiety with a focused set of realistic paths to investigate.
Read real examples of lawyers who moved into business, finance, tech, nonprofits, government, and leadership roles.
Ex Judicata helps JDs turn legal experience into credible business opportunities.
The platform is dedicated exclusively to JDs seeking careers outside traditional legal practice.
The job board features vetted nonlegal roles where JD skills are intentionally valued.
Career Corner connects lawyers with specialists in resumes, interviews, branding, and transition strategy.
Courses, community, diagnostics, search, and success stories support every stage of the transition.
Built by leaders who understand legal-career pivots firsthand.
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.
JDs leaving legal practice often move into compliance, risk, operations, corporate strategy, wealth management, nonprofit leadership, government, policy, legal tech, product management, business development, and advisory roles. Ex Judicata helps narrow those options by combining a JD-specific Career Diagnostic, nonlegal job board, industry webinars, peer community, and coaching resources built around how lawyers actually transition.
Get direction on resources, roles, coaching, and community options.
Milestone reflects broad JD transition demand.
Deep legal, recruiting, and business expertise.
Purpose-built platform for lawyers leaving practice.
Share where you are in your legal-career transition, and Ex Judicata can help point you toward relevant resources, roles, coaching, or community support.
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