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Asking about the feasibility of transitioning to big law after two years in-house and any feedback on firms to target. About a year out from my ideal transition time so want to plan.

Here are the details:
- got a "can't miss" opportunity to work in-house after 6 months at V20 firm in secondary-ish market (Atlanta/Texas/Chicago range)
- HYS grad
- in-house gig is for a very high profile brand with a tiny legal team and I do mostly transactional work, but handle a wide variety of legal issues
- ready to move to southern CA to be with my fiancee (her job is based there) and go back to big law to get more technical training (ultimately want to be a GC of a large company)
- targeting LA (specifically Santa Monica)
- want to do transactional work (have some securities experience - that's what I did at the firm)
- I'm only 27 and two years out of law school so would be okay with going in as a second year, or even a first year with second year pay (as if I had a clerkship, for instance).

Appreciate any advice. Can't give a ton of detail about my job because it's in a small market but happy to answer general in-house questions if that would be helpful to anyone.

I just want to note that there are VERY few firms in Santa Monica. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Cooley. A lot of people commute from Santa Monica to Century City, so that's doable. The expo line also just was extended to Santa Monica from DTLA, so as long as you don't mind spending 50 minutes on the metro in the morning, it's not a terrible commute (no driving, no traffic).