Know for a fact I do not want to do litigation after one year. Want to try transactional work because I eventually would like to go in house. Firm reluctant to move me around right now because there’s a lot of work in litigation. I don’t want to wait around hoping they will put me in another practice area and jeopardizing my chances at an in-house position. Should I be looking for new jobs?

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I think you’ve answered your own question, but yes, if you want to do transactional, switch ASAP, and since your firm won’t let you do it, find somewhere else that will.

The good news is that as far as retooling goes, the earlier the better, and you’re only one year in. If you’ve got the grades/school etc, firms with busy transactional practices should give you a look. Think about what you can sell as having learned from your one year - general law firm experience, responsiveness to internal and external clients, understanding how to meet deadlines, bill time, navigate document management, manage staff/paralegals, etc. If you’re in a specific litigation area maybe you can claim some substantive knowledge (e.g., real estate litigation to real estate transactions).

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I just did this and moved to a different firm. Also a first year. I felt like current firm would just let the “we can move you eventually”
bit go on forever. Very happy about the switch!

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There will always be “more litigation.” You could see if you can litigate some transactional work gone bad. That would give you tremendous experience for actually doing transactional work later.

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