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by shubb 862 days ago
You are a paralegal, which means you have some great domain knowledge.

You need to find a place that will value that lack of technical knowledge enough to overlook beginner tech skills.

Maybe an AI legal automation company needs a product manager, or a data scientist. Sometimes have people in your team with great generic tech skills but really value some who can make sensible assumptions based on deep knowledge of the problem you are trying to solve.

Consider identifying a bunch of companies that need your legal skills and writing to e.g. the ceo if it's a small startup asking for them this very question.

Regarding QA, which is a real possibility... automated testing needs a certain level of coding and Web development knowledge + automation frameworks. You can tell from the job ad whether those skills are highly emphasised or not. A lot of qa people don't have them.