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Law is an excellent fit for tech skills IMO, if you also have a personality that fits the kind of law you want to do.

This is true on multiple levels. Legal documents and briefs work like code in some ways, and the core function of the practice of law is to apply rigorous logic and rules in an accessible way (although people often disagree as to the result). It tends to feel natural to a coder.

It’s also true because tech skills make the practice of law easier. Like most office work, you can often write scripts to automate things and be an absolute hero to your coworkers. In litigation, at least, some career paths also involve quite a bit of data management, and your ability to handle a moderately complex excel spreadsheet will pay dividends. Beyond that, in patent litigation or even some contract or copyright litigation, you’re going to be dealing with “technical experts”—and with a solid tech background you will often run circles around them.

Honestly many of the scariest, sharpest lawyers in some parts of law have tech backgrounds.