Attorneys with the firm often send firm-wide emails advising of in house openings with a corporate client, and solicit recommendations or resumes of qualified candidates. Usually the client contact is a hiring manager for the position. How do I show interest without completely shooting myself in the foot? While I ultimately do want to exit the firm, I also don’t want to be openly broadcasting my intent to leave by telling the firm attorney(s) that I’m interested. Thoughts?

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Why not use the firm’s contacts to your advantage? If you’re leaving anyway the firm will benefit from having an alumni at the client. Unless your managing partners are completely unreasonable (which, let’s face it, they may well be), they should think of it as an opportunity. Would it be worth an open and frank discussion that you’re thinking about a move in house and would like to stay in the firm’s network and continue your working relationship that way?

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