galdosdi

I've been a software engineer for over a decade with strong CS fundamentals and varied experience across stacks and industries, competent across all the major focuses of the job (coding, mentoring, requirements gathering, project management, troubleshooting, ops, politics, etc).

If I retrained as a lawyer, I know there's basically no way to justify the expense and time switching to a career that isn't really any better in material terms.

But I wonder if there's any niche where a lawyer who also is the rare one with such a strong SWE background could somehow be extra useful somewhere in the industry where the legal/software worlds meet.

I still wouldn't expect the material rewards / worklife balance to be any better and perhaps worse. But maybe with such a valuable niche, if it exists, perhaps someone in my situation could at least eke out a career that is especially satisfying, doing valuable work that not a lot of people can do?

I just have always loved the law for the same reason as code. Systems of rules are fascinating, and the older I get the more I'm bored by the one that governs bytes and more fascinated by the one that governs humans. I'm a human myself.

I probably won't do it anyway because the practical considerations are just too great, but I'm still really fascinated at least hypothetically by these questions.

Does anyone have any thoughts / experience on this? Or any others on the connection between law and software engineering.