top 20 accounting firm pivots
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2024 2:12 pm
entering this year as my first tax experience, anyone made the transfer to biglaw/big4 or can share how their career progressed being at an accounting firm with their jd?
Tax experience in which specialty area (SALT, International, M&A, trusts & estates, executive comp, etc.) ?
What was your undergraduate major ? (Accounting ?)
Best way to Biglaw is to earn a tax LLM degree at NYU. (Biglaw tax practice differs from accounting firm/Big 4 tax practice. Therefore, as a JD working in the tax area of an accounting firm, you are not in training for Biglaw.)
Best way to Big 4 is to be in a specialty area that is in high demand, but short supply of experienced individuals.
A tax LLM from Georgetown, NYU, or Northwestern should yield offers from Big 4 if you do well.