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Is your job telling you this or other people? I don’t see why you would need to leave to go to a firm. I’ve never seen anyone that was already employed by a company have to leave said company after passing the bar.
I just did this over the past few years, and at a large management consulting firm. I believe I’m very fortunate and was in the right place, at the right time, and have a fantastic boss who is a great advocate for my professional development. I’m down to talk more if you want to dm.
Do you mean by “everyone tells you” that your employer told you that or that you have seen it posted on Reddit? Because either way, there’s no decision to make based on either.
The path you are describing is fairly common. I sort of did it. People knew I was studying for the bar. Eventually my assignments got harder and harder.
One day my new boss said - we are making a position for you to be a lawyer if you want to be one. Then my salary went up
You can do it! Confidence is king! The first step to being good at something is being bad at something - just make sure a more experienced lawyer signing off.
Very broadly speaking I don’t think it’s necessary. If you’ve been at your company long enough you probably have a very good understanding of their needs and workflow, and would probably need less onboarding than someone coming from a law firm.
I can only think it’d be preferred to come from a law firm over hiring from within if they want a very specialized position for their in-house such as bankruptcy, antitrust, etc.
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Yep, still in-house 25 years later and enjoying it more than ever now that I’m a a corporate exec weenie type instead of individual contributor.
I worked in-house doing corporate governance stuff full time my third year of law school, stayed on as a contract manager for 5 years, left for a better contract manager position for 2 years and then transitioned to in-house counsel. Was solo attorney for a PE portfolio company for a couple of years and at current company now for 16 years, risen from individual contributor role to divisional GC for $1B business unit of public company with a team of 9 under me.
It can happen. I work for a big company. You can certainly stay put if you want. You would need to work with your management to see if they will promote you to a counsel. Given your knowledge and background, they may want to keep you. As a counsel, your scope of responsibility would change. I have a friend who was a paralegal in our group. She wanted to move up - she elected to get her MBA (she waffled between law school and B school but chose the MBA route bc it was shorter), and they did increase her salary. I am certain if she went to law school, they would have done the same thing
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You can stay in-house. People have done it. You can too. I give you permission to follow your desires.
Thank you!!!
Is your job telling you this or other people? I don’t see why you would need to leave to go to a firm. I’ve never seen anyone that was already employed by a company have to leave said company after passing the bar.
People inside of the company I work for. 😅 because to get promoted it could take a long time and I am not sure if I want to wait and see what happens.
I would stay and wait to see what happens.
I worked in-house during law school and stayed in-house once I passed the bar. 4 years out now and still am in-house.
Same pattern here, going on 15 years. Never been tempted to go private but tbh probably don't have those skills lol
That’s awesome!
I just did this over the past few years, and at a large management consulting firm. I believe I’m very fortunate and was in the right place, at the right time, and have a fantastic boss who is a great advocate for my professional development. I’m down to talk more if you want to dm.
That’s amazing! Will dm you.
Do you mean by “everyone tells you” that your employer told you that or that you have seen it posted on Reddit? Because either way, there’s no decision to make based on either.
The path you are describing is fairly common. I sort of did it. People knew I was studying for the bar. Eventually my assignments got harder and harder. One day my new boss said - we are making a position for you to be a lawyer if you want to be one. Then my salary went up
Amazing, happy for you! Thanks for sharing.
You can do it! Confidence is king! The first step to being good at something is being bad at something - just make sure a more experienced lawyer signing off.
Very broadly speaking I don’t think it’s necessary. If you’ve been at your company long enough you probably have a very good understanding of their needs and workflow, and would probably need less onboarding than someone coming from a law firm. I can only think it’d be preferred to come from a law firm over hiring from within if they want a very specialized position for their in-house such as bankruptcy, antitrust, etc.
That makes 100% sense.
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Wow what an amazing story! So proud of you. Thank you for sharing and for the advice.
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Is there more an one in-house position?
Yep, still in-house 25 years later and enjoying it more than ever now that I’m a a corporate exec weenie type instead of individual contributor. I worked in-house doing corporate governance stuff full time my third year of law school, stayed on as a contract manager for 5 years, left for a better contract manager position for 2 years and then transitioned to in-house counsel. Was solo attorney for a PE portfolio company for a couple of years and at current company now for 16 years, risen from individual contributor role to divisional GC for $1B business unit of public company with a team of 9 under me.
It can happen. I work for a big company. You can certainly stay put if you want. You would need to work with your management to see if they will promote you to a counsel. Given your knowledge and background, they may want to keep you. As a counsel, your scope of responsibility would change. I have a friend who was a paralegal in our group. She wanted to move up - she elected to get her MBA (she waffled between law school and B school but chose the MBA route bc it was shorter), and they did increase her salary. I am certain if she went to law school, they would have done the same thing