JD Job Board
Browse a dedicated employment platform where 100% of listed roles are nonlegal opportunities for lawyers, including compliance, ethics, investigations, risk, regulatory affairs, and advisory positions.
Find compliance opportunities that value your JD without forcing you back into traditional practice. Ex Judicata helps lawyers explore compliance, ethics, investigations, risk, and regulatory roles through a dedicated nonlegal job board, targeted webinars, vetted career specialists, and confidential search support. Build a clearer path from legal analysis to business-facing compliance work with resources designed specifically for attorneys moving beyond law.
Explore JD-focused tools, coaching, training, and search support for moving into compliance and risk roles.
Browse a dedicated employment platform where 100% of listed roles are nonlegal opportunities for lawyers, including compliance, ethics, investigations, risk, regulatory affairs, and advisory positions.
Access on-demand career-pivot webinars, including compliance career paths, with first-person JD panelists and hiring managers from relevant destination industries.
Work with vetted Career Corner specialists who help lawyers clarify goals, translate legal experience, and position themselves for business-facing compliance roles.
Refine your CV, LinkedIn profile, cover letter, and personal brand so compliance hiring teams understand your risk, regulatory, and stakeholder-management value.
Prepare for behavioral, competency, panel, and executive-search interviews with coaching built around how nonlegal compliance employers evaluate JD candidates.
For senior roles, Ex Judicata’s retained search practice connects employers with lawyers suited for compliance leadership, investigations, risk, advisory, and related positions.
Start by clarifying whether compliance, ethics, investigations, risk, or regulatory affairs aligns with your strengths. The EXJ Career Diagnostic maps attorney traits against business careers and helps focus your search before you invest time applying.
See how JDs have moved into senior compliance, investigations, advisory, and risk roles with targeted support.
Built exclusively for lawyers pursuing fulfilling careers beyond traditional legal practice.
Every resource is designed around lawyers moving into business, nonprofit, government, or academia.
Exjudicata.com crossed 500,000 unique users, creating a substantial JD career-transition audience.
Career Corner specialists are selected for CV, LinkedIn, branding, coaching, and interview expertise.
Resources and search conversations support still-practicing lawyers exploring exits discreetly.
Meet the experienced legal-industry builders guiding JD career transitions.
Co-Founder
Neil Handwerker is the Co-Founder of Ex Judicata, the world's only comprehensive employment platform dedicated to helping lawyers transition from legal practice to fulfilling nonlegal careers. After earning his JD, Neil briefly practiced law before recognizing it wasn't the right fit and pivoting to a career in business. That firsthand experience became the foundation of his mission. He co-founded Fulcrum Information Services, which grew into a market leader in management education for outside counsel, in-house lawyers, and C-suite executives. Neil later became a seasoned legal recruiter before launching Ex Judicata in 2022 alongside his long-time business partner Kimberly Fine. With over 75 years of combined industry experience between the two founders, Neil brings deep expertise in legal recruiting, career transitions, and platform building to every aspect of the company.
Co-Founder
Kimberly Fine is the Co-Founder of Ex Judicata and a seasoned business leader with an MBA and decades of experience at the intersection of legal services and publishing. As the long-time business partner of Neil Handwerker, Kim helped build Fulcrum Information Services into a market leader in management education for outside counsel, in-house lawyers, and C-suite executives. She subsequently held prominent roles at several leading legal publications, deepening her expertise in the legal industry and the career challenges facing JDs. In 2022, Kim co-founded Ex Judicata to create a first-of-its-kind platform connecting lawyers seeking nonlegal career paths with organizations eager to hire JD talent. Her business acumen and media savvy have been instrumental in growing the platform to over 500,000 unique users and launching the groundbreaking EXJ Community.
A compliance lawyer helps organizations understand, manage, and reduce legal and regulatory risk. In nonlegal compliance roles, a JD may support ethics programs, internal investigations, policy development, controls, reporting, training, and governance. Ex Judicata focuses on helping lawyers translate those legal-analysis skills into business-facing compliance, risk, investigations, and advisory opportunities.
Explore Ex Judicata resources or connect with a vetted specialist.
Major audience milestone reached in January 2026
Combined founder expertise across legal careers
Dedicated exclusively to nonlegal careers for lawyers
Tell Ex Judicata where you are in your transition, and the team can point you toward the job board, webinars, coaching, or confidential search resources that fit your goals.
You can also send us a quick email at kfine@exjudicata.com.
You can also send us a quick email at kfine@exjudicata.com.