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Switch as early as you can make up your mind. Firms find it harder to accommodate changes after a while. Most will let you switch in two years unless you were brought in for a specific group’s needs.
Some other thoughts: The work will change over time. You won’t be doing doc review forever. Your needs outside of work will change over time, too. The stressors, facetime, travel, predictability, and even hours can be very different group to group. So think about how that fits with life outside work. I’d also think about edit options, too, as they’re very different for lit, regulatory, and transactional. Lit in particular is slim pickings unless you have a good network. But you can do non profit. Transactional seems to let you duck out early for good pay. Regulatory has a government and private practice angle.
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I’d move sooner rather than later but talk to people at your firm who work in their areas and find out what they actually do. Litigation, for example, will always involve lots of legal writing, and more of it as you advance. So if you don’t like doing that I’d pick something else.