Also a (former) Projects lawyer here. Projects gets very rote and mundane very quickly, your work is pretty much the same few documents over and over again and prospects of moving inhouse are limited if you work exclusively on Projects. If you're in a projects team, it may help to diversify the work you do, take up more gen-corp assignments.
I am a projects lawyer (associate) who also works on other laws. I have decided to leave projects for good. Mostly means clerical mundane work, reading monotonous agreements/letters and drafting replies which am sure must be boring for the counterparties to read. And piles of work.
If an associate starts in a B/F team of a tier I firm, can they expand their area of expertise and include other practice areas such as gen corp, M&A as they grow (say after the PA level)? How easy/difficult is it to do this.
What are you saying? Chartered accountants get RP mandates. They appoint law firms as legal counsels. Firms even assist resolution applicants and COC. IBC has good scopes.
There are many threads on LI warning law students from joining certain practice areas in law firms. I wanted to know, leaving aside one's personal interest, which practice areas would law firm folks recommend? What are your reasons for the recommendation?
Pursue: Startup PE/VC, Competition, White Collar, Fintech
Thanks!