Junior associate at a big 4 in a niche advice and counsel oriented practice group. There hasn’t been enough work, but office leadership isn’t open to letting me do work outside of the practice group (which Im a bit puzzled about because I have a good rep). Anyway, not having much luck with the job search because I have no lit experience as a full time associate and there seems to be no entry-level/junior L&E roles out there. Any advice?

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What market? Are you applying to biglaw transactional practices too? Any overlap with exec comp, or interest in getting more ec work that you could explain in a good cover letter? If the interest is really in litigation, the advice I’ve always received has almost always been to look for boutique and midlevel firms to build up good experience, then lateral back up to a bigger firm.

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