((This part got cut off originally; it was sent to Ask A Manager but I haven't heard from her)): I'm an attorney with 5 years of experience, first as an intern, with one company. I'm ready to depart.
I obviously can’t say everything I want to say (toxic culture, always putting out fires, incompetent/virtually no administrative assistance, manager is checked out), and was thinking about saying “Since I joined the department, it’s become fully staffed at a very high level, and I’m the most junior person. It makes sense for the organization, but it also means that there opportunities for my professional growth are becoming sporadic.”
I’m particularly concerned about threading the needle between “I’m doing too much admin work” and “I haven’t been doing so much admin work that I’m not a competent attorney,” and I’d love some suggestions or feedback on what exactly to say.
The new job would also be in the city I prefer to live in (rather than the suburbs, where I am now), but I think that would more organically come up in the "Why do you want to work here?" line of questioning, rather than the "Why do you want to leave?" bit.