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As a younger associate, biglaw firms are going to care about your research/writing/problem solving ability, and that you aren’t a crappy person to be around. Try and do anything you can to get “ownership” over assignments/documents, and to improve those skills, because the people you will be interviewing with want to know how you can be useful to them. If they know they can just assign you a project and that you’ve done it before, it makes it easier to get a job/have people like you.
The job search also doesn’t have to be a fast and furious thing. You can work with someone or not and just put out feelers; apply to positions and take the interviews you want. Interviewing itself is good experience and it will allow you to get the feel of other places (which, as a first year, I’m assuming you don’t have as much of a grasp of yet).
Long-term. I want to go into a mid-size or Biglaw firm and get into a different practice area. Should I stay and get even more litigation experience or look for a lateral move to a different firm?
You can’t go wrong by looking if you miserable and want to leave anyway. But you can stick it out if you enjoy it. Also a first year associate that ended up doing general commercial litigation because I badly needed a job. Still applying and I’ve gotten about 5 interviews in the past month with different firms and companies doing the area I’m interested. I’d rather move now than be miserable for another 2 years for the experience. It’s hard to job search while working but you just need to consistently apply and churn out as many applications as you can
Get a year or two more experience and you will be more marketable. Try to get into a niche that larger firms do like employment law.