Litigation vs. Transactional?
I’m a 2nd year litigation associate changing jobs and I have the opportunity to either stay in litigation or switch to transactional. What are pros and cons to consider?

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Instead for pro/con, Ask these questions instead: Do you see a mentor on the horizon? Can you specialize in a particular type of litigation? Will you be allowed to do things to build clients? Do you prefer accounting/numbers or the thrill of duking it out against hated/honored opponents? Look ahead to your client-getting future. Who do you want as a client?

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I’d say all clients potentially need both litigators and transactional attorneys, so I’m not sure that’s a good dividing factor. Also, as a transactional attorney myself I would never describe my work as accounting/numbers (attorneys are notoriously shitty at this). OP, I’d break it down more like this: do you want to argue in court/pleadings/depos or do you like negotiating documents?

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Rates, pay, stress levels, what you enjoy more day to day, what best suits your personality, whether you’re more or less tolerant of risk (in a recession it is probably much scarier to be a transactional lawyer), whether you want to go in house (much easier as a transactional lawyer - but employment litigators also find in house gigs fairly easy).

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As a transactional lawyer you’ll lose a lot of predictability of your schedule - when pens are on, they’re full out.

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