Law school graduates possess unique skills that make them ideally suited for contract management roles. Most contract managers currently come from technical backgrounds and require additional training in contract law, whereas law school graduates already have substantial experience in all aspects of contract management from their legal education. Employers will benefit from hiring law school graduates as they are prepared to apply their legal knowledge to business and require less costly training than other candidates. Law school graduates bring applicable skills in negotiation, remedies, and other legal areas directly related to contract management.

1. Law School Graduates: The Ideal
Contract Managers

2. Unique Skills
The unique skills acquired by law
school graduates are ideally suited to
impact the field of contracts
management in a positive way.

3. Traditional Path:
• Most contracts managers are employees with
technical knowledge of a trade, who then
learn contracts law through employer-paid
additional schooling.

4. The Dark Horses:
• Law school graduates:
• - Already have substantial experience related to
every phrase of contracts management
• - An advanced contracts law course is mandatory
for every law student in their first year

5. Prepared to work:
• Employers will benefit from the three intense
years of legal education already completed by
law school graduates.

6. The Bottom Line:
• Training the legal nuances of contracts
procurement and compliance is time
consuming and expensive.
• Training a legal professional to apply contracts
concepts to business is cost-effective.

7. Bringing value to the table:
• Many law school graduates have taken
elective courses in negotiation, remedies, and
corporations. These classes are directly
applicable to contracts management

8. A wealth of experience
• Many graduates have additional procurement,
negotiation and contracts compliance
experience gained at law firms after law school.

9. A new wave of potential employees
• Law school graduates are well-prepared to
make positive and immediate contributions to
the field of contracts management.