Any success stories on transitioning from litigation to transactional/in-house? Or anything you’d recommend to switch?
Recently passed the FL Bar and have been working in litigation at a firm for 5 weeks. Trying to switch into transactional but everything looks to be a minimum of 3 years of experience

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