Editing Lawyer (section)

===Common and civil law===
In most [[common law]] countries, especially those with fused professions, lawyers have many options over the course of their careers. Besides private practice, they can become a [[prosecutor]], government counsel, corporate in-house counsel, [[administrative law judge]], [[judge]], [[arbitrator]], or [[law professor]].<ref>Abel, ''American Lawyers'', 167–175; Abel, ''England and Wales'', 214; Arthurs, 131; Gandhi, 374; Merryman, 102, and Weisbrot, 277.</ref> There are also many non-legal jobs for which legal training is good preparation, such as [[politician]], [[corporate executive]], government administrator, [[investment banker]], [[entrepreneur]], or [[journalist]].<ref>Anderson, 124–131.</ref> In developing countries like India, a large majority of law students never actually practice, but simply use their law degree as a foundation for careers in other fields.<ref>Gandhi, 374.</ref>

In most civil law countries, lawyers generally structure their legal education around their chosen specialty; the boundaries between different types of lawyers are carefully defined and hard to cross.<ref name="Legomsky">In general, see, Legomsky, Stephen H. (1990) ''Specialized Justice: Courts, Administrative Tribunals, and a Cross-National Theory of Specialization'' Oxford University Press, New York, {{ISBN|978-0-19-825429-4}}</ref> After one earns a law degree, career mobility may be severely constrained.<ref>Merryman, 102–105.</ref> For example, unlike their Anglo-American counterparts,<ref>Although it is common for former American judges to return to private practice, it is highly controversial for them to suggest that they still retain any judicial powers (for example, by wearing judicial robes in advertisements). Brad McElhinny, "[[Margaret Workman|Workman]] criticized for using robe in ad: Group files State Bar complaint about the way former justice seeks clients", ''[[Charleston Daily Mail]]'', 3 February 2005, 1A.</ref> it is difficult for German judges to leave the bench and become advocates in private practice.<ref>Blankenburg, 133.</ref> Another interesting example is France, where for much of the 20th century, all judiciary officials were graduates of an elite professional school for judges.<ref>Boigeol, "The Rise of Lawyers", 202.</ref>

In a few civil law countries, such as Sweden,<ref>Bernard Michael Ortwein II, "The Swedish Legal System: An Introduction", <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">13 Ind. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 405, 440–445 (2003).</span></ref> the legal profession is not rigorously bifurcated and everyone within it can easily change roles and arenas.