What are good non-traditional roles for someone who likes research and writing, but hates the discovery process and time demands required in litigation? Doing commercial lit now and can’t see a long-term future in it. I clerked for a few years in appeals and that was great, but there is zero opportunity for advancement. I fear a state appeals position would similarly lack opportunity for growth.

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Insurance COVERAGE litigation. Not ID, insurance coverage.

You are generally one step removed from the process and are advising insurers how to proceed and whether or not to cover a certain claim, and then appealing trial court decisions re those decisions.

It is sophisticated work that is legally dense but tends to be less factually involved. Insurers pay mucho dolares for coverage work because they can't trust run of the mill ID attorneys to do this shit when millions are at stake.

A huge caveat, however, is that many firms that practice IC also do ID. Do not, under any circumstances, go work for firms that do a lot of ID because you will end up getting a boatload of soul draining ID work.

The flip side of this is what Anderson Kill became famous for. I won't explain what they do because you can just google them.

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OP, I'd just ask them. Firms that do ID work are usually honest about it for lots of reasons, including the fact that they want someone who can do ID work.

If they seem washy about it, come back here and ask people about them.

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