Most career advice for lawyers is written with litigators in mind, or it stays general enough that it never quite speaks to the work transactional lawyers do day to day. Deal lawyers and in-house counsel build their careers around a different set of skills, including judgment, speed, knowing which issues actually matter, and earning the trust of the business teams they support. Plenty of transactional lawyers end up where they are by taking whatever work came their way, not by making deliberate choices about where they wanted to go. Questions like whether to stay at a firm or move in-house, whether to specialize or stay broad, and how to build a reputation that brings in good work tend to get pushed off until something forces the decision.
In this webinar, Laura Frederick, Jay Harrington, and Kyle Robisch will talk through how transactional lawyers can build their careers on purpose rather than by default. They'll cover the decisions that shape a transactional career, how to develop the skills and reputation that lead to better work, and how to approach business development in a way that fits how transactional lawyers actually work. The discussion is meant for lawyers at different points in their careers, from associates trying to figure out their path to in-house counsel weighing their next move.Key topics include:
No CLE or CPE credit will be provided for this program.
