The combination of a linear career path and non-security underlying a career of high-skilled professionals with an analytical profile, who value autonomy, should stimulate the participation of each lawyer in career self-management. Lawyers should continuously examine their own motivation and performance both for engaging in development activities, as well as for balancing the effort for climbing the career ladder with the possible outcomes. Selfpromotion outside the firm may be necessary, in order to find alternative placement if they are let go. However, the participation of each lawyer in career selfmanagement is very narrow, being careers managed, in most cases, only by the firm. Little intervention is taken by the lawyers in relation to career self-management. Even expertise specialization choices are made, most entirely, at the firm’s convenience (Margarida et al., 2018).