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If you’ve litigated contractual disputes, you can try to spin that: you know which dozen words in the contract actually really matter for liability, and have seen what exact phrasing liability has hinged on. But… you likely won’t find someone willing to hire you to straight up switch.
Best bet is going to a smaller firm that hires you for lit but will let you touch some transactional work. The full extent of what you actually do doesn’t matter, what matters is being able to put transactional work on your resume (and so long as you learned enough to BS an interview). The other reason is it allows you to keep litigating, 2 years isn’t very long at all; there will be a presumption (keeping you from interviews) that you haven’t done anything substantive yet- which you can’t rebut unless you can get an interview!
Transactional work isn’t in a vacuum, you need to negotiate with counter-parties (with no judge to enforce rulings). While simple on paper, it’s actually chock full of very nuanced unwritten customs that are easy to accidentally violate and piss off the other side.