Why It's Better To Choose A More Specialized Practice Area
[00:00:00] I moved from Florida to Boston. So construction litigator. I joined a boutique that is extremely unorganized and I'm not happy at the firm. It's also hard to get out and "Rainmake", which is something I want to do. I found another insurance defense firm, that defends a lot of self-insureds. They also do some construction litigation teams to keep up with the specialty. I haven't interviewed with them after Thanksgiving and I'm exploring my options. There are not a lot of construction litigation openings at other firms, and I'm also not a hundred percent confident that I love construction law. I liked it in Florida because it was a good firm, but here I'm not thrilled and just terrible. If I go back to insurance defense? I want to ask the new firm about rainmaking opportunities. I do want to do that.
Okay. So the best way for, first of all, construction litigation is a very good practice area. It's a more active practice area than just regular insurance defense. So that's just something to think about.
And typically the more specialized your practice area, the better. I would just think about that. So being a construction litigator is probably a little bit better for you than maybe being in doing insurance defense, but that's just up to me just because there [00:01:00] are a lot of construction litigation openings. I'm going to say the same thing I said to the other person. If you research all the construction firms that do construction litigation and you contact them and ask them if they have any openings, a majority of them will say, we'd love to look at your resume, and then you can send the resume if your uncomfortable, just sending your resume. If you do send your resume, I'm pretty confident you have good interviews. If you don't love construction law, I don't know why the quality of the firm liking it matters, but it's certainly not terrible if you don't like it. If you prefer insurance defense, there's nothing wrong with insurance defense and that's an active, ongoing practice area, but to the extent you can, I would be careful about switching practice areas. If that's something you're thinking about doing because construction law in my experience is a very good practice here. And it's probably better in Florida and places like Florida and Texas and other places that where they're doing a lot of new construction, as opposed to, I know that during construction in Boston, but areas like Florida and Texas are booming.
So it [00:02:00] can be a very good practice in other parts of the country as well. But from what I've seen, law firms are having a very difficult time finding construction litigation attorneys. And I do think you could find another construction litigation firm if you liked it. And then. No about the remaking opportunities, but yeah, I think you can ask him about that, but I would be careful about any time you have a specialty like construction law, that it's just a very good practice area.
I am what you're going to do, insurance defense, and you probably can still do that, but it would depend on the type of insurance offense. So I would just be careful. I hope that helps. That was a good question.
