Has anyone successfully managed to move from a niche in-house practice to a more generalist role? If so, can you provide any helpful tips to transition? I have started down a specialty that I fear will limit my mobility in the future and am looking for tips on how to not be pigeon-holed.

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Depends on the specialty really.

What do you consider a "generalist" role? Most in house roles are specialized IMO

Product Counsel is pretty generalist at most places.

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What’s the specialty? Some specialties are easier to branch off to “general” areas. Like privacy for example can pretty easily tack on IP Trans work and vice versa. Can’t say the same for someone who specializes in IDK tax trying to branch out to privacy.

OP -- current specialty is Government/Public Sector but would like to transition to a more general contracts/procurement role that touches on different sectors

Try to add those items to your current scope. Or lateral to another shop that requires you to do both.

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