I was just speaking to my brother who was speaking with a lawyer who literally had three distinct and separate lawyer jobs in a rural area. He was a judge in one county, a prosecutor in another county, and had a private practice in another county. Another friend of ours is both a forester and a lawyer, and focuses on drafting trusts for landowners when he is not doing his day job as a forestry professor. I also had an engineering professor who got his JD while I was a student, and used it to create a class in engineering law and ethics. The timing was perfect, because the class literally started about the same time as the Challenger explosion. I have a friend who is about to take the bar who has worked for the state in environmental regulatory issues and wants to pursue that in his pending legal career, and another who works for a private firm focusing on nuclear regulatory law. And I spent too much time as a marketer working with corporate lawyers on customer facing documentation.
Too many people think all lawyers are ambulance chasers, divorce lawyers, criminal defense lawyers, or prosecutors, because that is what we see constantly on TV. They have no concept of corporate law, regulatory law, tax law, administrative legal work, real-estate law, etc., even though 95% of the time, the lawyers you are likely to deal with are on administrative or real-estate issues.