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Originally Posted by Unregistered
i don't have the statistics but my feel is that there's generally more litigation/general solicitor jobs (e.g. your average Chinatown/boutique firm) out there compared to pure corporate law gigs (e.g. your average big law firm, and even then there's really only a couple of local law firms that dominate).
also, believe it or not there are quite a number of disputes lawyers who really enjoy doing disputes work and can't imagine doing anything else. Perhaps it might be a lack of imagination, but hey far be it from me to say.
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this goes without saying.
One should not forget also that some corporate work, to an extent, can be taken inhouse and kept there. Which reduces the volume of work available for external corp counsel.
You seldom see companies except the largest corporations with dedicated inhouse disputes teams. Even then, these guys cannot or wouldn't represent the company in actual court proceedings or arbi proceedings and need external disputes counsel.