Does anyone have any advice for applying for in house positions as a litigator? I’ve been applying all over but haven’t had even an interview; it’s been a disheartening process.

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Yes. Is difficult. Try to rewrite your resume and add other experience you may halve, such as compliance. Emphasize experience reviewing settlement agreements, writing MOUs or other written docs and try to translate that into transactional/contract review type experience. Try to apply for jobs that’s still require a little bit of litigation handling, sometimes for first lawyers in a company. Talk about your ability to take on a subject that you know nothing about every time you have a new litigation and becoming an expert fairly fast in order to represent the company well. So basically my advice is to just rewrite your resume not in terms of litigation experience but in terms of how that experience would make you a great in-house counsel.

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And that’s right too! But do transactional attorneys in biglaw...even do work like this?

I (as a corporate assoc.) lost out on a great job as a finalist to a litigator! So it’s definitely possible!!!!! I’m still pissed about it lol. Good luck!

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A2, that’s not a HUMBLE brag :)

You’ll get the next one.

I remember what it was like trying to go in-house as a litigator. It was very depressing. What worked for me was re-writing my resume. Initially, my resume had stuff like how many trials I had done, how many deps I had taken including expert deps, etc. You know, things that litigators cared about.

I got rid of all that, and focused on miscellaneous activities that are more relevant to an in-house role. E.g., drafting settlement agreements, negotiating discovery stipulations, working closely with engineers to develop non-infringement arguments (I was a patent litigator), etc. Once I did that, I was getting quite a few recruiter calls and eventually went in-house as a product counsel at a tech company.

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Lawyer whisperer has dome helpful blogs iirc

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