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<blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 92795" data-attributes="member: 2672"><p>It is difficult for me to give precise advice on this as it is not my area of expertise. However, I would assume that moving to private practice from in-house will be tricky. The reason for this is that you are working in a very different way. As an in-house lawyer, you have oversight of everything but only have one client - your employer. In private practice you are much more specialist, but have to work with a variety of clients - your variety comes from the types of clients you work with and the different jurisdictions you may encounter each time. This is much more fixed in-house. So the styles in how you work and the objectives you will have will be very different, even if the topics are somewhat similar. This in turn impacts the skills you develop and the ways in which you are used to working, which can create quite a contrast.</p><p></p><p>There will be some variables that are likely to influence your ability to move - mainly the relationships you build with the law firms that work for you and how valuable your experience is to a law firm. If you have to manage a major merger during your time in-house you'll probably be more in demand than if you are just doing standard day-to-day legal queries. If all of a sudden experience in venture capital work increases dramatically, then you could be in more demand compared to if demand stays fairly stable.</p><p></p><p>My advice would be to scout LinkedIn to see if people have moved from in-house into law firms. Using the search function, you could search an asset manager company name and a law firm name and see if anyone has moved between the two. I suspect you will find many more people move the other way though - from private practice to in-house. If you do find people who have moved from in-house to private practice, it is probably worthwhile trying to connect with them and get their thoughts on how they did it and what they think you need to consider.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jessica Booker, post: 92795, member: 2672"] It is difficult for me to give precise advice on this as it is not my area of expertise. However, I would assume that moving to private practice from in-house will be tricky. The reason for this is that you are working in a very different way. As an in-house lawyer, you have oversight of everything but only have one client - your employer. In private practice you are much more specialist, but have to work with a variety of clients - your variety comes from the types of clients you work with and the different jurisdictions you may encounter each time. This is much more fixed in-house. So the styles in how you work and the objectives you will have will be very different, even if the topics are somewhat similar. This in turn impacts the skills you develop and the ways in which you are used to working, which can create quite a contrast. There will be some variables that are likely to influence your ability to move - mainly the relationships you build with the law firms that work for you and how valuable your experience is to a law firm. If you have to manage a major merger during your time in-house you'll probably be more in demand than if you are just doing standard day-to-day legal queries. If all of a sudden experience in venture capital work increases dramatically, then you could be in more demand compared to if demand stays fairly stable. My advice would be to scout LinkedIn to see if people have moved from in-house into law firms. Using the search function, you could search an asset manager company name and a law firm name and see if anyone has moved between the two. I suspect you will find many more people move the other way though - from private practice to in-house. If you do find people who have moved from in-house to private practice, it is probably worthwhile trying to connect with them and get their thoughts on how they did it and what they think you need to consider. [/QUOTE]
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