1st year attorney here. It seems hard to find any transactional law job or even commercial litigation law job as a newbie. The only jobs I more or less see are the ID firms. I am talking about the MIA-FTL-WPB area specifically.

I check out job search platforms like LinkedIn regularly and it is basically the same ID firms again and again posting.

Is the job market for all these other specializations bad or am I just looking wrong?

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I believe the best non-ID jobs are not on LinkedIn or even publicly posted sometimes. The best way to crack open your job search is to get with a recruiter.

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Yep, had to accept a job in premise liability with the option to do some corporate work. Any transactional job is impossible without 5-7 years exp. in Florida it seems.

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Yes it’s hard but it gets easier with time as you gain more experience

Those jobs will not be posted — get a recruiter and it’ll open doors.

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