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Do exit options actually make your life that much better than biglaw?

You realize that "exit options" means any career that you can possibly get after biglaw, right? Your question is impossibly vague - can you rephrase?

flawschoolkid wrote:You realize that "exit options" means any career that you can possibly get after biglaw, right? Your question is impossibly vague - can you rephrase?

Is being in house corporate counsel that much better than big law?

Heh. A friend of mine just went in-house from biglaw. She's getting paid a little more than at her firm, she works 8-6 but gets every other Friday off, and gets 8 weeks of vacation a year. Okay, she admits no one takes 8 weeks a year. But it sounds pretty good to me (if you want to negotiate contracts/leases and do other in-housey things).

(And yes, I know, it's one anecdote. I just wanted to gloat for her.)

A. Nony Mouse wrote:Heh. A friend of mine just went in-house from biglaw. She's getting paid a little more than at her firm, she works 8-6 but gets every other Friday off, and gets 8 weeks of vacation a year. Okay, she admits no one takes 8 weeks a year. But it sounds pretty good to me (if you want to negotiate contracts/leases and do other in-housey things).

(And yes, I know, it's one anecdote. I just wanted to gloat for her.)

Wow, that sounds absolutely incredible. How long was she at her firm? And what region was this?

Two years at her firm. She got seconded to the company for part of that. Not NYC/DC/LA/Chicago.

A. Nony Mouse wrote:Two years at her firm. She got seconded to the company for part of that. Not NYC/DC/LA/Chicago.

Right. I am wondering if in house jobs are more intense in the big cities.

A. Nony Mouse wrote:Heh. A friend of mine just went in-house from biglaw. She's getting paid a little more than at her firm, she works 8-6 but gets every other Friday off, and gets 8 weeks of vacation a year. Okay, she admits no one takes 8 weeks a year. But it sounds pretty good to me (if you want to negotiate contracts/leases and do other in-housey things).

(And yes, I know, it's one anecdote. I just wanted to gloat for her.)

She won the lottery.

WHJTMG178 wrote:

A. Nony Mouse wrote:Two years at her firm. She got seconded to the company for part of that. Not NYC/DC/LA/Chicago.

Right. I am wondering if in house jobs are more intense in the big cities.

Every white collar job is.

There are all kinds of in house jobs from incredibly shitty ones to incredibly awesome ones.

WHJTMG178 wrote:

A. Nony Mouse wrote:Two years at her firm. She got seconded to the company for part of that. Not NYC/DC/LA/Chicago.

Right. I am wondering if in house jobs are more intense in the big cities.

It's a big-ish city (as you'd expect for an international company), just not one of the above.