Side Hustles For An Attorney

Side Hustles For An Attorney
Disclaimer This content is for informational and educational purposes only. It’s not intended to be a substitute for professional or legal advice.

 


As an attorney, you have valuable knowledge, qualities, and skills in legal matters that you can use to start your own business or businesses.

You can start some of these as a side hustle while working your full-time job as an attorney, before scaling them up into businesses and leaving your full-time job.

Following are some of the businesses that you can start as an attorney.

Side Hustle 1 -
Tutor law students on law topics, Bar exams, and LSAT

Type Teaching, WFH, PartTime
Pay Average $100/hour

Law is a very difficult and competitive career to get into, with its rigorous requirements for entry into law school, passing law school, and then passing the Bar exams.

Aspiring and current law students are constantly looking for help from tutors who can help them with preparing for LSAT, studying for Law courses, and also in passing the Bar exams.

As an attorney, you can earn side hustle income by tutoring law students and helping them prepare for LSAT, Law courses, and the Bar exams.

Long Term - Over time this side hustle has the potential to earn as much or even more than your full time pay. At that time you can determine if you want to make this as your full time job.

You have the opportunity to scale this side hustle and turn it into your own tutoring business.

Side Hustle 1 - Side Legal Work
Work additional hours outside of your full-time work

Type Law, WFH, PartTime
Pay Average $100/hour

Individuals and business need attorneys for various legal tasks. Tasks could be simple such as drafting a will for an individual, setting up a legal entity for a small business, drafting a deed, or they could by bigger like filing a lawsuit on behalf of a company.

As an attorney, you can earn side hustle income by working additional hours on legal tasks.

You can find legal work via online platforms such as Upwork and Upcounsel that connect attorneys with clients, or you can work directly with individual clients and companies.

Side Hustle 2 - Write Content on Legal Topics
Write articles and content related to law and legal matters

Type Writing, WFH, PartTime | Hourly
Pay Average $50/article

Law firms, Corporations, Government entities, etc. need content writers, knowledgeable in law and legal matters to write content for their website, blogs, publications, journals, etc.

Similarly people maintaining independent websites and blogs on law and legal topics are consistently looking for content writers who can write detailed articles on topics specific to law.

As an attorney, you can earn side hustle income by becoming a part-time content writer

You can find content writing companies that hire freelance content writers specifically having knowledge and qualification in the legal field.

You can also network and market your content writing gig, highlighting your legal industry experience.

Long Term - Over time this side hustle has the potential to earn as much or even more than your full time pay. At that time you can determine if you want to make this as your full time job.

You have the opportunity to scale this side hustle and turn it into your own business.

Side Hustle 4 - Start a YouTube channel on Legal Topics
Start a YouTube channel with Content on Legal Topics

Type Content, WFH, PartTime
Pay $0 - $10,000+ per Month

People often browse on Internet first trying to find answers to any legal issues they may have in their personal or business matters.

As an attorney, you can earn side hustle income by starting your own YouTube channel.

Since your videos and content will be in the topics of law, this will benefit your attorney job as well.

Earnings - You have the potential to earn thousands per month through your YouTube channel. Most of the earning come through display ads, affiliate products, and digital assets such as ebooks.

Long Term - Over time you have the opportunity to scale this side hustle and turn it into your own business, and hiring your own employees to maintain the YouTube channel.

Side Hustle 5 - Start a Podcast on Legal Topics
Provide information on legal topics via your podcast

Type Content, WFH, PartTime
Pay $0 - $10,000+ per Month

Podcast has become very popular in the last few years as one of the means to consume content.

This popularity can be attributes to flexibility of listening to the podcast while doing other tasks such as driving, cooking, working out in the gym etc.

As an attorney, you can earn side hustle income by starting your own podcast and sharing content on legal matters.

Since your videos and content will be in the topics of law, a podcast will benefit your attorney job as well - you will get more visibility as an attorney.

Earnings - You have the potential to earn thousands per month through your podcast. Earnings increase gradually over time, as your podcast becomes more popular and gain more traffic.

Most of the podcast earning are made via sponsored ads.

Long Term - Over time you have the opportunity to scale this side hustle and turn it into your own business, and hiring your own employees to maintain the podcast.