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Very risky that they might let your current firm or partner know sooooooo are you a gambler? Not sure on the etiquette side but they do say you have to ask to receive????

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I am currently working on a few cases as co-counsel/ local counsel with a firm located in a much larger city/market. I have also been considering a move to that city. Our firms are comparable in size, however, and their firm has a job opportunity that matches what I am looking for. Would it be inappropriate to discuss this with the two partners I have been working with? Not sure how that would look to either firm.

I think the bigger concern (for both firms) might be with how the client would respond to it. If I were you I would take advantage of any opportunities you have to get coffee or a drink with partners from the other firm to float the ideally casually and gauge their response. If they seem supportive, I would work toward getting an offer from them through whatever channels they suggest and then, when it’s near-final, approach your current partners and let them know it’s primarily geography-motivated move. That all assumes that your current firm doesn’t have a stronger relationship with the client than your new firm (look at who the relationship partners are at each shop, whether any of them worked at the same firm as your in house client contact, etc.). If your current firm has the stronger relationship, I would wait until the matter concludes before approaching counsel at the other firm—you hypothetically can approach partners at your own firm and let them know you’re interested in moving to a different city, but there is no surer way to write off your own partnership prospects (and cool substantive opportunities in the short term), so I wouldn’t recommend that unless you really believe you’re going to relocate (with an offer on the table) in the next 3-6 months.

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