Salary Range
$50,000 to $100,000+
Lawyers provide legal advice to individuals, businesses, government agencies, and nonprofits and represent them in legal disputes and civil and criminal proceedings. Space lawyers provide these services to companies and government agencies that develop and manufacture space technology; launch and operate spacecraft, satellites, and other technology; and engage in other activities in suborbit, orbit, or beyond the orbit of Earth. Space lawyers are also known as space attorneys.
Minimum Education Level
Law DegreeCertification/License
RequiredOutlook
Faster than the AverageProblem-Solving
Realistic
Technical

General Counsel

Managing Attorney

Supervisory Attorney

Associate Attorney
- Aeronautical and Aerospace Technicians
- Aerospace Engineers
- Aerospace Medicine Physicians
- Aircraft Mechanics
- Arbitrators
- Astrobiologists
- Astrogeologists
- Astronauts
- Astronomers
- Astrophysicists
- Avionics Engineers
- Avionics Technicians
- Bail Bondsmen
- Bailiffs
- Bankruptcy Lawyers
- Biologists
- Biotechnology Patent Lawyers
- Bodyguards
- Border Patrol Agents
- Bounty Hunters
- Chemical Engineers
- Chemists
- Civil Litigation Lawyers
- Computer Programmers
- Corporate Lawyers
- Court Interpreters and Translators
- Court Reporters
- Criminal Lawyers
- Drone Engineers
- Drone Manufacturing Workers
- Drone Pilots
- Drone Repair Technicians
- Elder Law Attorneys
- Electrical Engineering Technologists
- Electrical Engineers
- Electronics Engineering Technicians
- Electronics Engineers
- Engineers
- Environmental Lawyers
- Family Lawyers
- Flight Instructors
- Forensic Experts
- Forensic Meteorologists
- Geographic Information Systems Specialists
- Hedge Fund Lawyers
- Hypersonics Engineers
- Hypersonics Technicians
- Industrial Engineers
- Intellectual Property Lawyers
- Judges
- Laboratory Testing Technicians
- Law Librarians
- Lawyers
- Legal Nurse Consultants
- Legal Operations Specialists
- Legal Secretaries
- Litigation Support/eDiscovery Analysts
- Manufacturing Engineering Technologists
- Manufacturing Engineers
- Materials Engineers
- Mechanical Engineers
- Mergers and Acquisitions Attorneys
- Molecular and Cellular Biologists
- Mutual Fund Lawyers
- Non-Destructive Testing Specialists
- Paralegals
- Patent Agents
- Patent Lawyers
- Physicists
- Pilots
- Polygraph Examiners
- Process Servers
- Public Interest Lawyers
- Real Estate Lawyers
- Robotics Engineers
- Robotics Technicians
- Space Meteorologist
- Space Pilots
- Space Tourism Managers
- Spacecraft Test Technicians
- Tax Attorneys