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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Assuming it would result in a minor haircut on compensation, what are other reasons to NOT go in house?
- red tape;
- can't grab assistant's ass;
- $$ potential capped much lower.
Other thoughts? |
I've been in-house with the same organization for ten years. My client infuriates me on a regular basis, and often doesn't listen, but I can't get rid of it unless I quit and move somewhere else. And I don't make nearly as much as my outside counsel counter parts (who my client goes to when they don't like my answer after exhausting every other lawyer in my office, and some who work for our organization but aren't lawyers for the organization) do. I do a lot of non-legal hand holding, and I've gone through at least six rounds of layoffs and am about to start a fourth administration (if they ever get around to finding a new president). Oh, and there's not much further for me to go up. But I haven't worried about my own hours in a decade, I'm not having to drum up my own business, and I'm pretty sure that I don't want to go outside ever again. And I get to practice really cool law (to me anyways) that not that many other lawyers in the country get to do.
I actually rather like what I do for a living.
