Career coaches for legal careers
Compare 35 career coaches who focus on legal careers. Besides legal careers, the most common focus areas are career change, promotions and advancement, career clarity and purpose and interview coaching. They most often work with lawyers, professionals and students. Most charge $129 to $300 per hour or session.
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Ann W.
Ann W. coaches students and lawyers who want to move into MBB consulting firms. She is a former McKinsey consultant and a former top-tier lawyer with tech and AI expertise. She has also worked in venture capital and AI product innovation. Ann has interviewed graduates in law and MBB, so she knows how recruiting works from the hiring side. She works with clients from the APAC region.
Andrew Juergens
Andrew Juergens is a legal career coach who helps law students and aspiring attorneys land big law jobs. He is an associate at Kirkland & Ellis. He did not attend a T14 law school, and he still won offers from multiple big law firms, regional and small firms, startups and JD advantage roles. He coaches on interview prep, networking strategy and resume review. He is also a first-generation law student and attorney.
Anna Rappaport
Anna Rappaport is a lawyer and coach who works only with attorneys. She helps law firm partners, aspiring partners and in-house counsel with business development, leadership and career strategy. She has 22 years of experience training leaders and coaches in personal growth. She is trained as an ontological coach. Her clients include lawyers in big firms, boutique practices and new firms, in Washington, D.C. and around the world.
Carolina Banegas
Carolina Banegas is a career and executive coach who helps professionals plan their careers and prepare for interviews. She is a Senior HR Manager at Herbert Smith Freehills and worked as a headhunter at Signium Spain for six years. She began as a junior lawyer in corporate law and finance. She teaches career management at IE Business School and Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, and has coached more than 50 people.
James Walker
James Walker is a private equity coach who also helps clients with investment banking, law school admissions and AI for finance. He worked as a private equity M&A associate at Kirkland & Ellis from 2021 to 2024. He also worked at GenNx360 Capital Partners and Guggenheim Partners. He holds a law degree and is earning an MBA at Wharton.
Jessica Mullery
Jessica Mullery is a career coach for lawyers and compliance professionals. She helps them with career advancement, job searches, and career changes. She is a lawyer herself. She clerked for a judge, then worked as a litigation associate at two firms, including an Am Law 100 firm in Manhattan. She later led law school career services as an Associate Director. Her clients work at companies like Google, Microsoft, and Walmart, and at Am Law 200 firms.
Khara Kelsch
Khara Kelsch is a career and leadership coach who helps professionals grow their careers, build leadership skills, and handle transitions. She started as a BigLaw attorney and later moved into coaching and attorney development. She built a firmwide coaching program at Steptoe LLP and led coaching and career development there. She has deep experience with attorneys, law students, and legal professionals. She is a Professional Certified Coach trained through iPEC.
Nik D
Nik D is a career, executive and leadership coach for people in elite professions. Nik has 20 years of coaching experience and is ICF certified. Before that, Nik spent 12 years as a corporate lawyer and investment banker, working as an M&A lawyer and banker in London and Tokyo. Nik has coached hundreds of clients across legal, finance, professional services, corporate, tech and consulting roles, and has helped clients reach Director and Partner level.
Samorn Selim
Samorn Selim is a career, executive, and leadership coach who helps BIPOC, women, and first-generation professionals build careers they enjoy. Samorn is a lawyer turned coach and the founder of Career Unicorns. Samorn was a big law attorney, then Director of Employer Outreach at Berkeley Law. Samorn has coached more than 1,000 lawyers, tech workers, and leaders. Samorn's programs aim to get clients to their goals in 3 months.
Hans Schumann
Hans Schumann is an international executive career and life coach. He helps executives, professionals and business owners change or grow their careers, lead better and build a balanced life. He worked in law and financial services for more than 21 years before coaching. He wrote the career book Falling in Love With Your Job. He holds the advanced PCC accreditation from the ICF. He coaches clients in any time zone.
Leila Rachlin
Leila Rachlin is a career coach for attorneys and business services professionals. She helps them handle demanding workplaces, career moves, and interviews. Before coaching, she spent over 25 years in legal and management roles at international law firms. She ran attorney training programs at Kirkland & Ellis and worked on business development at White & Case. She leads Prosper Legal Management LLC, which she founded in July 2024.
Lewis C. Lin
Lewis C. Lin is an interview coach who runs Impact Interview. He helps professionals in technology, consulting, finance, law and healthcare prepare for job interviews, with a focus on product management and tech roles. He wrote Decode and Conquer, which has 500,000+ readers, and built the frameworks his team uses. The practice started in 2009. Clients can work with a certified coach or book one-on-one time with Lewis himself.
Sasha Franklyn
Sasha Franklyn is a career and leadership coach who works with attorneys, executives and first-gen and multicultural professionals. Sasha is a former M&A and sovereign wealth investment associate at Jones Day. Sasha also led programs at Johns Hopkins University and built corporate training programs that reached over 1 million professionals worldwide. Coaching focuses on finding the pattern behind stalled decisions and building a clear direction. Sasha holds a JD from Columbia Law School.
Sheila Markin Nielsen
Sheila Nielsen is a career counselor and executive coach who helps lawyers and other business professionals. She founded Nielsen Career Consulting in Chicago in 1990. Since then she has assisted over 5,000 professionals with job search, career path guidance and professional development. She also works with law firms and companies to build attorneys' interpersonal skills and manage their careers. She offers a referral service for therapists whose patients need career help.
Annie Little
Annie Little is a career coach and burnout coach for lawyers. She helps them land jobs, lead, and succeed in the legal profession and beyond. Annie is a former attorney who went through burnout herself, with boredom, anxiety, and illness over more than two years before she changed careers. She has coached lawyers since 2012. Her work centers on building success without giving up health, income, or integrity.
Brandy DeOrnellas
Brandy DeOrnellas is a life and career coach in the Bay Area of California. She helps people with career change, promotion, life transitions, and small business growth. She is a former attorney and holds the PCC credential. Her own move from law to coaching shaped her focus on transitions. She also coaches teams and plans organizational retreats. Sessions run online or in person.
Antonio Moya
Antonio Moya is a career coach who helps law students and lawyers build their careers. He has coached more than 100 clients and has more than 15 years of experience. He knows the hiring processes of the main law firms in Spain. He has seen them as both a candidate and a law firm. He is also Executive Director of Chapter Zero Spain and a professor at IE Business School.
Kawsar A.
Kawsar A. is a career coach for lawyers, paralegals, legal administrators and legal counsels. He helps them land jobs at top law firms and grow in their roles. He is an associate at a full-service law firm in the City of London. He worked as a paralegal before becoming a lawyer. He has been part of hiring for junior lawyers, trainees and legal support staff, and has screened 100s of resumes.
Nobel El
Nobel El is a career, life and relationship coach who works with clients online. Nobel coaches men and women from teens to seniors in their 70s and 80s. Focus areas include career pivots, job hunting, legal career stress, marriage and life goals. Nobel has studied legal matters, human services leadership and personal growth for over thirty years. Sessions are private, and Nobel takes on only a small number of clients each week.
Casey Berman
Casey Berman is a career transition coach who helps lawyers leave law for a non-law career. Casey runs Leave Law Behind, a community and coaching program led by former lawyers in the San Francisco Bay Area. Casey has helped hundreds of attorneys move into finance, operations, tech and compliance. Casey's clients include former BigLaw, litigation, insurance defense and corporate lawyers. Some now work as trust officers, wealth advisors and fiduciary advisors at banks.
Simone Sterling
Simone Sterling is a career coach who helps people break into new industries or move up in their current roles, with a focus on legal and AI-related careers. She works as an AI Innovation Analyst at a major law firm. She has a law degree and has led GenAI adoption for more than 750 legal users. Earlier, she delivered over 25 enterprise programs at Citibank and Morgan Stanley.
Julie Han
Julie Han is a career and leadership coach in Summit, New Jersey. She helps clients who want more happiness or success in their careers and personal lives. She is an experienced attorney and senior executive, and she coaches lawyers who want to develop their careers or make a change. She holds a JD and is a Certified Career and Life Coach. She also writes articles on career coaching, bosses, and happiness.
Alexia Godron
Alexia Godron is an admissions consultant who helps students with law school applications, college admissions and early career steps. She is a JD student at Columbia Law School and a Yale graduate. She worked three years as a litigation paralegal at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York City, then returned there as a summer associate. She also interviews applicants for Yale as a volunteer.
Anna Gee
Anna Gee is an admissions coach who helps students apply to college and law school. She is a public defender in New York and an alum of BYU and Harvard Law School. She clerked for a federal district court judge and worked as a legal research and writing advisor at Harvard Law School. She helps clients shape their story and share it clearly. She coaches on essays, nerves, and interviews.
Annette Wong
Annette Wong is a life and career coach in Los Angeles. She helps professionals who feel drained by their jobs. She uses mindfulness and narrative-based techniques to help clients rework the stories they tell about themselves. Annette is a former lawyer who burned out and turned to mindfulness to cope. She coaches people in law, finance, non-profit, and the arts. She also co-hosts the Break Form Podcast.
Autumn Noble
Autumn Noble is an attorney and certified coach who helps lawyers and other high-achieving professionals with burnout, career moves, and leadership growth. She started by coaching only attorneys. Her practice now also runs under Lady(ish): A Life Collective, where she teaches nervous system strategy. She hosts The Lawyer Life Podcast and speaks to law firms and bar associations on burnout, emotional intelligence, and sustainable leadership.
Elise Holtzman
Elise Holtzman is the founder of The Lawyer's Edge. She coaches lawyers and law firms on business development and leadership. She is a former attorney at Am Law 100 firms and holds a JD from Columbia Law School. Since 2008 she has worked only with lawyers. She helps them build books of business, step into roles like managing partner, and improve teamwork. Her signature group program is called Lawyers Making Rain.
Hillary Mantis
Hillary Mantis is a law school admissions and career coach. She helps applicants get into law school and helps students and professionals plan or change careers. She spent years as Assistant Dean of the Pre-law Advising Program at Fordham University. She has advised hundreds of applicants into almost every law school in the country, including most of the T14. She also wrote The Essential Guide to Law School Admissions and Alternative Careers for Lawyers.
Machmud Makhmudov
Machmud Makhmudov is an admissions consultant who coaches applicants to law school, master's programs and MBA programs. Machmud also helps with fellowships such as the Rhodes, Knight-Hennessy and Schwarzman. Machmud is a Stanford Law graduate and a Rhodes Scholar who read for an MPhil at Oxford. Machmud worked on the Biden 2020 policy team and at the White House on the COVID Response team. Machmud has spent hundreds of hours coaching applicants.
Paige Tobin
Paige Tobin is a law school admissions consultant who helps aspiring law students plan and write strong applications. She is a current JD candidate at UCLA School of Law. She is an incoming associate at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and an incoming judicial clerk in the Central District of California. She has coached more than 50 aspiring law students. She also helps with Big Law interviews and clerkship applications.
Taylor Applegate
Taylor Applegate is a law school admissions consultant who helps transitioning military members, veterans, young professionals and senior undergraduates plan a future in law. Taylor served six years on active duty as an Air Force officer, then earned a JD at Stanford Law School. Taylor clerked for the Ninth Circuit and now practices as an attorney at Salahi PC. Taylor also helps clients apply to other graduate and fellowship programs.
Grace Albinson
Grace Albinson is a life and career coach who helps lawyers with perfectionism, stress, and overwhelm. She runs Legally Calm. Grace is a former federal prosecutor who also worked in attorney development. She prosecuted domestic violence and sex trafficking cases before she became a coach. She felt the same stress and anxiety in her own legal career. She teaches the thought work tools that helped her, and she focuses on female attorneys.
Chelsea Linsley
Chelsea Linsley is a lawyer and life coach who works with law students and young lawyers. She founded The Law School Project. Her coaching mixes life coaching, career coaching, mindfulness and legal teaching methods. She has tutored law students since she was in law school herself. She also spent time as a public interest lawyer and holds a J.D. from George Washington University and an Oxford certificate in human rights law.
Carrie Rodarte
Carrie Rodarte is an executive and health coach in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She helps lawyers and senior leaders who face burnout, career shifts, and leadership challenges. Before coaching, she practiced law in the UK and US, working with Fortune 100 companies and start-ups. She is also a certified yoga instructor and a trained chef. Her coaching links mental, emotional, and physical health, and it draws on neuroscience and positive psychology.
Madeleine Shaw
Madeleine Shaw is an executive, leadership and life coach in New South Wales, Australia. She helps stressed professionals and their teams find clarity, calm and ease. She used to work as a lawyer, and she holds law degrees. Her coaching covers leadership, career change, wellbeing and workplace challenges. She also writes about healthy boundaries for lawyers and about stepping out of the comfort zone without hitting panic.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Ann W. | Career change and Interview coaching | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Andrew Juergens | Job search and Interview coaching | $80 to $160 an hour |
| Anna Rappaport | Career change and Promotions and advancement | $125 to $200 an hour |
| Carolina Banegas | Career change and Interview coaching | $100 to $175 an hour |
| James Walker | Consulting and finance recruiting and Resume and LinkedIn | $80 to $165 an hour |
| Jessica Mullery | Career change and Job search | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Khara Kelsch | Career change and Promotions and advancement | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Nik D | Career change and Promotions and advancement | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Samorn Selim | Career change and Promotions and advancement | $125 to $200 an hour |
| Hans Schumann | Career change and Promotions and advancement | $115 to $200 an hour |
| Leila Rachlin | Career change and Interview coaching | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Lewis C. Lin | Interview coaching and Tech careers | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Sasha Franklyn | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Sheila Markin Nielsen | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $125 to $200 an hour |
| Annie Little | Career change and Job search | $90 to $175 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a career coach for legal careers cost?
Most career coaches charge $129 to $300 per hour or session.
What else do these career coaches help with?
Common focus areas include career change, promotions and advancement, career clarity and purpose and interview coaching.
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Last updated September 2026.