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Could you just jump from Firm to Firm for 4-6 years then go in hous?

Does Inhouse care about you switching firms? Seems credited ...
marvelous gay wizard
  05/22/18
Most people ime switch firms after 2 years then go inhouse a...
Bateful coiffed sandwich deer antler
  05/22/18
Seems 180. Biglaw is way less stressful if you have no long ...
marvelous gay wizard
  05/22/18
no it still sucks balls. hated every minute of it, especial...
Bateful coiffed sandwich deer antler
  05/22/18
Cr
trip peach boltzmann
  05/23/18
Do you think this is because first biglaw to in house move t...
disturbing digit ratio turdskin
  05/22/18
if you're leaving as 4-5th year, you're probably going to a ...
Bateful coiffed sandwich deer antler
  05/22/18
...
Lilac Chest-beating Ladyboy
  05/22/18
Kind of like going to amazon and then to random f500
marvelous gay wizard
  05/22/18
We're all biglaw refugees, so we get it. If you're at 5 firm...
Stimulating abode macaca
  05/22/18
If someone jumped around a lot, I assume they probably weren...
unholy unhinged kitty
  05/22/18
Lol come on bro
marvelous gay wizard
  05/22/18
Just my personal experience after having hired 10+ biglaw re...
unholy unhinged kitty
  05/22/18
Firm hoppers = done here
Well-lubricated mauve meetinghouse
  05/22/18
As someone who jumped around a lot, this is very credited. ...
Amethyst Den
  05/22/18
What skills do you think you missed out on?
marvelous gay wizard
  05/22/18
Mainly drafting and negotiation. I was never in a position ...
Amethyst Den
  05/22/18
Thought biglaw training was flame. Nutella hopped firms and ...
marvelous gay wizard
  05/22/18
I mean, none of this is too hard to pick up later, so it's n...
Amethyst Den
  05/22/18
Imo, it is. In fact, my first inhouse boss gave me a task an...
Lilac Chest-beating Ladyboy
  05/22/18
180000
marvelous gay wizard
  05/22/18
This. 80% common sense. 20% random legal knowledge.
Stimulating abode macaca
  05/22/18
...
marvelous gay wizard
  05/22/18
Nutella pls respond
marvelous gay wizard
  05/23/18
...
marvelous gay wizard
  05/23/18
(not a litmo)
vivacious range persian
  05/24/18
Nobody cares if you switch firms once. 3 or more in 5 years...
crystalline skinny woman house
  05/30/18


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Date: May 22nd, 2018 4:43 PM
Author: marvelous gay wizard

Does Inhouse care about you switching firms? Seems credited since you could basically coast for a few months before laetralling, then there’s always a ramp up period after you lateral.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36106585)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 4:47 PM
Author: Bateful coiffed sandwich deer antler

Most people ime switch firms after 2 years then go inhouse after another 2 yrs. then lateral to new inhouse after 2 yrs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36106606)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 4:54 PM
Author: marvelous gay wizard

Seems 180. Biglaw is way less stressful if you have no long term emotional investment

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36106637)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 5:36 PM
Author: Bateful coiffed sandwich deer antler

no it still sucks balls. hated every minute of it, especially as a junior.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36106870)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 7:03 PM
Author: trip peach boltzmann

Cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36114607)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 5:40 PM
Author: disturbing digit ratio turdskin

Do you think this is because first biglaw to in house move tends to be to a workhorse position and then people transition to a more chill in house job two years later?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36106885)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 5:42 PM
Author: Bateful coiffed sandwich deer antler

if you're leaving as 4-5th year, you're probably going to a corporate/legal/contracts/enterprise counsel 9-5 position with no leadership authority. it's not a workhorse but if you want to keep climbing the ladder to an AGC/GC role, pretty much have to lateral in today's world.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36106895)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 6:16 PM
Author: Lilac Chest-beating Ladyboy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36107085)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 6:24 PM
Author: marvelous gay wizard

Kind of like going to amazon and then to random f500

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36107129)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 5:33 PM
Author: Stimulating abode macaca

We're all biglaw refugees, so we get it. If you're at 5 firms in a decade, that will raise red flags and we'll want to see a local connection. Otherwise, don't sweat it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36106863)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 5:37 PM
Author: unholy unhinged kitty

If someone jumped around a lot, I assume they probably weren't trained very well, and deduct on expectations for experience and skill.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36106876)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 5:42 PM
Author: marvelous gay wizard

Lol come on bro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36106896)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 5:43 PM
Author: unholy unhinged kitty

Just my personal experience after having hired 10+ biglaw refugees in the last 3-4 years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36106900)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 5:45 PM
Author: Well-lubricated mauve meetinghouse

Firm hoppers = done here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36106909)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 5:47 PM
Author: Amethyst Den

As someone who jumped around a lot, this is very credited. I got shit training at my three biglaw firms in 4.5 years. A person can emerge after 4.5 years at one firm with shit training as long as the firm is busy enough that someone can hang around that long churning bills on diligence and copy/paste forms. But it's much more common for firm hoppers because "ramp up" in terms of getting enough hours is one thing. It takes longer to actually having the mid-levels, seniors and service partners convinced that you'll stick around enough to start giving you more responsibility and bothering to correct your mistakes and try to train you. As a lateral that's going to take until you've been staffed on at least 2 or 3 decently large deals, and it will take a while if things aren't crazy busy. And if they are crazy busy then there's even less chance that anyone is going to set aside time to try to invest in the new guy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36106920)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 5:55 PM
Author: marvelous gay wizard

What skills do you think you missed out on?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36106956)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 6:15 PM
Author: Amethyst Den

Mainly drafting and negotiation. I was never in a position where I had to be on a call coming up with arguments off the top of my head live with opposing counsel and with clients on both sides listening and invested in the outcome on the key deal points. The "best" associates in my class at my last firm were definitely doing this, and when I got to inhouse it was a skill a lot my peers felt comfortable with, and I had to build it on the fly. Also just pure reps. Like I haven't done any securities work in years and neither have any of my peers at my inhouse, but all of us were once corporate and securities attorneys. Something came up the other day about a Reg D and my peer was like "let's confirm with the corporate team, but I think it's x because I remember I did a couple deals at the firm..." I was thinking to myself that I would've kind of known what she was talking about 5 years ago when I was fresh from a firm but today she might as well have been speaking gibberish.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36107078)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 6:16 PM
Author: marvelous gay wizard

Thought biglaw training was flame. Nutella hopped firms and didn’t even do transactional work before going Inhouse

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36107084)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 6:19 PM
Author: Amethyst Den

I mean, none of this is too hard to pick up later, so it's not like you can't recover or anything. But you can tell a difference between people who were good associates and really put in work at their firms and people who didn't, even years afterward. For some inhouse jobs it's a bad thing to be well trained. We hired a guy who came from a super uptight MFH firm and when he had to do higher volume commercial work here he annoyed the shit out of everyone because he couldn't prioritize and turned every tiny issue into WW3 requiring multiple VP approvals for signature.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36107094)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 6:20 PM
Author: Lilac Chest-beating Ladyboy

Imo, it is. In fact, my first inhouse boss gave me a task and said dont worry if you dont know everything there is to know about solving the task - thats why we’re inhouse. We make shit up on he fly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36107100)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 6:27 PM
Author: marvelous gay wizard

180000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36107140)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 10:49 PM
Author: Stimulating abode macaca

This. 80% common sense. 20% random legal knowledge.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36108963)



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Date: May 22nd, 2018 7:08 PM
Author: marvelous gay wizard



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36107397)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 2:26 PM
Author: marvelous gay wizard

Nutella pls respond

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36112749)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 7:03 PM
Author: marvelous gay wizard



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36114603)



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Date: May 24th, 2018 1:38 AM
Author: vivacious range persian

(not a litmo)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36116894)



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Date: May 30th, 2018 5:05 PM
Author: crystalline skinny woman house

Nobody cares if you switch firms once. 3 or more in 5 years may be a little too much though only cuz you seem like you’re unfocused or there’s something wrong with your personality/not getting along.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3983888&forum_id=2#36153985)