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I guess it depends on what you want to do. If you're doing PI and not working for a mill that just does pre-lit work, you're likely getting a large dose of litigation experience that translates into many fields. I know plenty of folks that did PI for years and transitions easily to criminal, family, and other litigation-heavy areas. If you decide to do something like elder law or corporate mergers all of a sudden, you may face a steeper curve, but I've seen folks do that as well.
I’ve been stuck in PI my entire career wanting to get out. I’ve been on the plaintiff side of cases so defense firms tell me they are looking for laterals with a book of business (plus plaintiff firms are notoriously unorganized and it’s been my experience that defense firms aren’t very interested in bringing plaintiff attorneys on board because of bad habits and no experience with billable hours). Personally, I graduated back when you could still put a full page ad in the yellow pages and that type of marketing could generate a good book of business for a year at a general practice. Today, I don’t know how you hang up your own shingle and start a firm because the marketing alone is a daily full time job and ridiculously expensive. There are great PI attorneys out there on both sides of the v but I think more and more plaintiff PI attorneys are going to be forced to work for others due to the costs and time associated with getting business and keeping the lights on. The attorneys and firms I’ve worked with that are getting the most cases in their respective cities are being run more like marketing companies than law firms - the owners spend 90% of their time on those marketing efforts and just hire attorneys for low salaries and promises of bonuses to work all the cases up (usually churn and burn approach because they need that constant cash flow to keep generating the marketing). I’m not saying there aren’t really incredible plaintiff boutique firms out there with amazing attorneys, but those jobs are very hard to find and those firms aren’t the mainstream plaintiff PI shops you’ll find in any major city. I would agree that PI is an area of law you will get stuck in and not be able to easily leave for a different type of practice.
Where do you practice ? What state ?
Oh, I started in PI (and am still in PI) but haven’t heart this. Curious what others will say, glad you brought this up.
I am 50% PI and 50% immigration. 15 years of 100% PI was too much. Glad I was able to transition.
I hated every PI case and my heart wasn’t into it anymore bc I felt I was working more for the chiro’s than the clients. Plus, half the clients were greedy anyways. I got rid of the chiro’s and replaced them with immigrant cases. Love it now. Get rid of what you hate.