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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it's easy, then how?  Please share.[/quote]

I'm not the PP and I wouldn't say it's easy ... but ... do you have any technical skills or would you be interested in developing them? That might involve some targeted coursework but could be something short of going back to school. I work for an FFRDC (kinda like technical consulting, but a bit more embedded with the gov't and no commercial interests) and find former lawyers to be fantastic team members. I only need them to be technical enough (generally light programming, or even power users with Excel) to interface with systems and software engineers. Aspects of the legal through process -- particularly thinking through interactions and identifying ambiguities in text (and their possible interpretations) -- is a really useful skill.

Do you have any focus to your legal work -- such as a regulatory domain, or contracts, or healthcare / privacy? If the domain still holds any interest (and what I describe above sounds even vaguely enticing), I'd start by identifying what organizations provide engineering and consulting support to the gov't in your domain. Browse job openings at those orgs and search for contacts.

[I did a career change from bench science to this line of work, in about the same scenario. It came together pretty easily once I found something specific I was interested in, rather than just wanting anything out of the lab.][/quote]

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