I am from tier 2 city. I passed my law school, 2years later than my batchmates because of health reasons and depression. Post it, I have been working with litigation lawyer for 2.5 years. The work is decent though erratic - somedays i don't have any work and needless to say, I don't get paid anything. Also, my chamber practice is niche and not much commercial litigation exposure. However, I have done 2 courses additionally and have independently been drafting rental agreements, compliance of a small smse.

After much hard thought-processing, I have realized that the inhouse position is something that suits me best-not that I am lazy or something but I enjoy to be more on the decision making aspect of things rather than executing them. I don't know how to approach a company as all my internships have been in litigation only and I lack a proper corporate exposure.

I am aware Companies would be hesitant to directly take me in for job and that's why I want to approach for assessmentship. My questions:

1. would doing an assessmentship be good in my case?

2. how do i convince or what approach should i adopt as most of these beginner positions are exclusively for recent graduates.?

Thanks for going through this all and am really hoping that I can get some answers to my query from here.