Recent grad and have a couple of in-house offers, one at a tech company in NY (sort of a start-up) and the other is an energy company in Dallas. Both would be transactional corporate counsel doing some M&A, contract negotiation, capital markets, etc., which is what I want to do. I have good grades from a T13, but missed my chances at big law during OCI.
I know I don't really have any other options at this time, but am wondering whether this is the route to go or whether I should instead hustle for a smaller transactional firm and attempt to lateral from there. I've got a ton of student loans, so I'm really hoping to eventually land at decent firm to pay down the loans.
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Re: How hard to go from in-house to biglaw?
Sorry, can't answer your question but I have a few of my own...how'd you manage to snag 2 in-house roles without experience? What's the salary?
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Re: How hard to go from in-house to biglaw?
I am in-house in TX, was in biglaw before that. I think if you start in biglaw, even for a short stint like a couple years, and then go in-house, it would be very easy to go back to biglaw (have seen it happen many times). It would be harder to go in-house straight out of school to biglaw cause you missed those initial years of training and whatnot. The work you do will be relevant to a corporate group, but not as focused on only deals. I haven't seen or heard of someone making the transition as you put it, but that doesn't mean it cannot happen. Sorry, probably not the answer you were looking for. Silver lining is that being on the in-house side is MUCH better than biglaw in basically every way besides $.Anonymous User wrote:Recent grad and have a couple of in-house offers, one at a tech company in NY (sort of a start-up) and the other is an energy company in Dallas. Both would be transactional corporate counsel doing some M&A, contract negotiation, capital markets, etc., which is what I want to do. I have good grades from a T13, but missed my chances at big law during OCI.
I know I don't really have any other options at this time, but am wondering whether this is the route to go or whether I should instead hustle for a smaller transactional firm and attempt to lateral from there. I've got a ton of student loans, so I'm really hoping to eventually land at decent firm to pay down the loans.
