If you like the idea of working with patents, trademarks and copyrights, you may wish to take that route. A lot of Computer Science programs at universities don't meet the requirements and you'd need to supplement your existing degree with laboratory chemistry, physics or biology classes at your local decently accredited college.

Otherwise, feel free to ping me, happy to chat about it.

I'm neither a lawyer nor female, I am married to someone who is both and considered law initially (family of them). Are you missing working companionship or feel pushed out as a female in SW? Is there a specific type of law you'd like to go into, similar to medicine or even software, there's many many different paths.

Best of luck, curious why you're looking at switching, I still flirt with it sometimes. Personally, I think the unreasonableness of some of the dealings/proceedings would irk me too much. It is very interesting though and the lawyers I know genuinely help better other people's lives, directly, while making a decent living.

I thought I would like corporate law especially working with startups. I got a job doing pretty much exactly what I wanted to do, but I didn't actually like it and only practiced for a year.

In my limited, purely anecdotal experience, comparing my developer friends and my lawyer friends, a much larger percentage of my lawyer friends hate their jobs.

It's easy to end up six figures in debt with no decent job prospects.