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[quote=Anonymous]I'm looking for some 'real world experience' from the attorneys out there.

My background is in a specialized litigation area.  I recently made the jump to the business (non-litigation) side of my specialty.  For a number of reasons, it is in not a good fit, one of them being that my narrow specialty is hard to find work in (almost impossible in litigation, and slightly less impossible, but still difficult, in non-litigation).  I'm trying to keep this brief, so bottom line and without going into detail, I can't go back to my litigation specialty.  My options seem to boil down to going into a more general litigation practice, or trying to find one of the few opportunities where I can work in my specialty, including a current in-house opening.

So my questions are:
- In the right situation, can in-house work be more interesting or more specialized than law firm practice?  Are there any in-house lawyers out there that have been able to really develop a specialty that was not available (or less available) in law firm practice?  Or is the trade off for the balanced quality of life in-house giving up the focus and sophistication of law firm practice?

- Can a litigator ever love non-litigation work?  Or once a lover of litigation, always a litigator/ill suited for non-litigation work?

Thanks!  I love being a lawyer, but sometimes it is hard in the business of practicing law, to make it all come together.  [/quote]

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