Will an attorney find it difficult to obtain employment?

No idea about whether you can find a job easily in web designing as a 40 year old attorney. I am in a similar boat though as an unemployed archaeologist. If you are currently gainfully employed, I would advise against making a rash decision right now on whether to leave your job in order to pursue another field without knowing if 1) if you will actually enjoy it, and 2) if you actually will be able to get a job in it. Maybe you already have some knowledge and experience with coding and have a pretty good idea that it is something you would enjoy. If you are basing this only on taking a beginner's course in web design, I will have to burst your bubble a bit by saying that web design is the easiest thing to code. That is why there are so many web designers, fewer web developers and even fewer computer programmers who can code good software. Of course the latter are highly desirable individuals, highly rare, highly paid, but they are rare for a reason. If you can manage to learn that type of coding, I am sure you could find a job since there is a lack of them.

Thank you so much for your insight. Especially the information about the lack of web developers. I love the law and would hate to leave but I have a strong desire to explore computer programming. I've only scratched the surface but so far I am significantly intrigued and intellectually stimulated. Thanks again for your insight!!

I hope I can be of some help :) I got two software engineers in my family and I used to code a long time ago. From what I have been told, the best way to get your feet wet in actual programming is to try out languages like Ruby and JavaScript. Less user-friendly ones are C and C++ but the former is well-regarded by employers. Java is a good one as well. It seems that Team Treehouse offers courses on most of those. Your choice will be partly based though on what you want to program and what platform you want to program for (and what you can tolerate to code in). Good luck!!