Legal Careers
A career option that is quite often overlooked by the differently the abled people is a career in Law. Legal profession, if adopted, can provide a wide range of options with limited physical activity. It can be a benefiting career option for wheelchair users and those having visual impairment.
One can work behind the comfort of a desk. It is vast field and can offer different alternatives. With limited mobility and physical strength, one can focus on various options in this field. People with special needs can become legal secretaries, transcribers, paralegals and lawyers. Paralegals are a kind of support staff and lawyers cannot not operate effectively without them. Paralegals can find work in areas such as Financial Services, Insurance, Banking, Building Societies, the Retail Sector, Credit Control, Export, etc.
You can even work in NGOs as a lawyer dealing in disability laws and on disability issues. Now days scope in cyber law is quite increasing. A course in cyber law can be done and one can get a job of a cyber lawyer with big companies. It may require working on computers sitting at one place.
After having a substantial amount of education in Law, one can even join a KPO i.e.Knowledge Process Outsourcing, which can even give the facility of working from home. After gaining good experience one can also start one's own law firm and or have a private practice.
To be a lawyer of judge one has to work very hard and should have lots of schooling and appropriate educational qualifications. Qualities like perseverance and determination have already been developed while fighting with disability in people with physical challenges. So these qualities can be gainfully used while pursuing this profession.
