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end goal is to be in house at a company. could I go into this from bankruptcy? it seems liek a good area where you really get a good look at how businesses work so it might translate well to in house. or would it be better just to do general corporate M&A or private equity?

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I'd say best practice area to go in-house is labor & employment. Though I know a few bankruptcy associates who ended up going in-house.

Look at job postings for a while. I think you'll see most are looking for M&A and general corporate experience. Really most are looking for somebody who is an expert in literally everything but from my vantage point, it seems like the thing that most emphasize over others is M&A experience. Obviously not so if you're looking at banks and financial institutions but you said company.

Around certain times of years I think you see a lot of postings for people with public company reporting experience but that's a bit different.

Labor and employment does have a decent amount of listings but I personally wouldn't do bankruptcy if in-house was my goal. Others may have different views.

Technology transactions is a solid option. You are basically doing what in-house attorneys do already, which is draft/negotiate day-to-day commercial agreements. There aren't huge tech trans practices in law firms because companies already have those capabilities in house.