<p>Legal services are required to one degree or another all over the country. But the requirement that you sit for a bar exam limits your mobility after you’ve been practicing a few years. As your practice becomes more specialized over time, you also have fewer options (although the ones you have may become more lucrative).</p>
<p>I’ve been working in software licensing for the last eleven years. I couldn’t switch to another area of practice at this point without taking a major pay cut. Realistically, that limits my options to a significant degree not all othat different from what faces a chemical engineer.</p>