What Are The Right Reasons To Change Practice Areas

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What Are The Right Reasons To Change Practice Areas
[00:00:00] Have you had success placing attorneys who want to change practice areas?
And the answer to that is yes, but not very often. I'm thinking of an instance, like a year ago where I had a guy that graduated from a top 15 law school first in his class, he was at a major law firm and he wanted to switch from corporate to litigation or litigation to corporate or something.
And couldn't get any interviews. And law firms, don't use recruiters to hire people that want to switch practice areas. Recruiters are in place when people like myself are hired to find people that are good matches. So they don't use people like me or our company, but you can certainly apply to those places on your own.
There are always going to be questioning when you want to change practice areas. One of the things I always try to teach in my classes is you have your Math/Science people and you have your English /Social Sciences people. Math science people tend to do better maybe more comfortable transactional practice areas, which is, corporate tax, things like that, or corporate is the big one corporate real estate, et cetera.
And then you have [00:01:00] your English, those with litigation. So many times there's a real mismatch between if a math-science person gets into litigation, there's real mismatch. And if the litigation person gets into, transactional work, there's a mismatch. So those are the main reasons to switch practice areas.
That's the only reason my main reason. And then you have some kind of mix overs, but the only other reason would be because you think there's more money. So right now corporate is very active. And so a lot of litigators are trying to do corporate and stuff, and that's, not a good reason.
I don't recommend switching practice areas for that reason. You just need to make sure you're doing the right thing.