After practicing law for several years, you’ve decided to look at other options. Attorneys making a lateral move do so for a variety of reasons. Perhaps they are not happy with their current firm or position. They may want to broaden their experience, make more money, have more work-life balance, or simply try a new opportunity. FindLaw’s How to Make a Lateral Move section addresses these considerations, with resources on moving out of your boutique firm, breaking out of litigation, switching from a small to a national firm, not making partner, and moving to a new firm. Let FindLaw help you take the first step in your lateral move.
How To Make a Lateral Move
How To Make a Lateral Move Articles
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Firm Hopping
Most attorneys from large firms move at least once or twice during their first three to five years of practice. However, if you are looking at your third or fourth firm in your second year of practice something is wrong.
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Distinguishing Among the "Big Firms"
When faced with a career move, choosing among the "Big Firms" may be akin to playing the dating game, wherein you usually have two choices: presume they are all the same and blindly pick one, or take so long to decide that you end up missing out on the best choice.
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Where to Practice? Law Firm, In-House, Government?
Read on for a discussion of career alternatives: plublic interest, corporations, government, and law firms. What are the upsides and downsides to each one?
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What Is the Outlook for the Field of ADR and Mediation?
What is the outlook for the field of ADR and mediation? In the long-term, the outlook for this field appears excellent.
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What is a Good Job for a Great Researcher, but Slow Writer?
What fields should you consider if you are a great researcher, but are a slow writer? Does this drawback preclude you from working in litigation?
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What if You Don't Make Partner After Seven Years? What's Next?
What if you spend 7 years at a law firm and don't make partner? What are your options at that point?
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The Path Through Private Law Practice
Whether you are beginning in private practice or are more advanced, you may want to take the following steps in analyzing the process and content factors in your work, looking at your firm's ability to supply and nourish the skills and values important to you.
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Advice About Becoming a Military Lawyer
Thinking about becoming a military lawyer? Will such an experience the ability to return to the private sector later?
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CEO Dreams With Lawyer Aspirations
Will going to law school help achieve the goal of becoming a CEO? Find out what our expert has to say.
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Find Satisfaction in Law: A Firm Choice
When faced with any issue, dilemma or conflict, she makes an affirmative choice even by inaction; i.e., "not to decide is to decide."