What are the chances of a management side labor relations attorney in big law being able to switch sides to join a union side firm? Currently thinking about a potential move but am wondering if my application would just be thrown in the trash given my experience.

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Union side practitioner here. Your application would not be auto rejected, but it will be viewed with significant suspicion.

You will need to be able to specifically articulate why you want to switch sides.

Union side folks are much more likely to be "true believers" who have intentionally chosen this practice area and side for ideological reasons.

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Also a union side lawyer and my firm would approach a management side lawyer this way too. We are a pretty ideological bunch and your reasons for wanting to switch will matter a lot.

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I am the opposite.I am a union side attorney working for a union. I have been looking for a new opportunity and I have been rejected by every management side firm I have applied to. I do not believe that you will have a problem. Your skills are transferable, you will just be making different arguments. It’s like arguing the swing argument in moot court.

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I do have a colleague who started at a union side firm and is now conflicted out of most of our labor work, so she primarily does employment work now.

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I want to do that someday to set up as a labor arbitrator. That seems like a pretty incredibly way to spend a semiretirement.

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