Most don’t regret it though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36756871)

I only care about the hours and no billing, nice people who aren’t demanding, and the job security of not being in an up and out situation. I would say comp too but frankly I was willing to take low-100s when I was looking so comp really wasn’t much of a factor at all for why I made the switch. If those are your reasons and you don’t care that much about the work, then you won’t regret it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36757095)

And it’s kinda funny that you point out interaction with clients and business folks as “interesting” things when it’s uniformly better to be the client where you’re dealing with business folks constantly and farming out the legal work to biglaw so you don’t have to stay up late and deal with fire drills.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36763783)

I get people who stay in biglaw because they have a partner who protects them, trained/trains them, and they reasonably expect to make partner and have a future at the firm. But people who stay because they make ~30% more money before taxes depending on bonuses and because they believed all the Harrison Barnes stretch 4 inhouse flame are LJL idiots.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36756919)

How much does inhouse pay do you think?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36756933)

And if you’re actually good enough to become GC you’ll make seven figures.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36757149)

so $230k all in?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36757245)

I will likely never make seven figures, inflation adjusted, but you still make very good money for dat upper middle class. And when a third of your pay is deferred comp you don’t get lifestyle creep and can retire at 55. I can’t even understand all the 60-year-old partners who are practically paycheck to paycheck. If you’re disciplined you can retire from Biglaw at 45, but literally no one does.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36757125)

Probably make more than i'd be making if I jumped to midlaw.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36760409)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36764460)

trial was the only thing that made this sham worthwhile

the THEATER, the SHOW!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36761518)

Call me 3AM on the telephone

Wake up every morning in a sweaty fright

Sleeping at the office almost every night

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36762297)

I don't get their reasoning. Me being here will probably come out to like $60-70k at least for a 4 month stint. The flight to my destination alone was like $3k. They want to extend it, but wife is pregnant and she doesn't want to have the kid here.

Plus, office is full of like nubile 20 year olds in slutty makeup. So marriage may not last if I stay. JFC. Euro chicks are another level.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36764564)

I'm considering Paris right now but I'd prefer not to as cool as living in Paris would be

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36765119)

if you go in as some faggot specialist or some commercial generalist, you're absolutely fucked growth-wise. it will be the same shit over and over again for the rest of your days, at least at that company.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36766748)

WTF, why is everyone ITT being a dick to me?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36771259)

Downside of inhouse IMO is you're sheltered from a lot of BS corporate stuff when you're at a firm. Sure, you know of it but it's not an everyday thing. Inhouse, you often have to "build relationships" and hang out with people who make the dummies at most biglaw firms look like rocket scientists (e.g., HR people, people doing literally nothing for $120K, etc.). You're also constantly bothered by pointless meetings and work on boards and committees, which is unpleasant if you're introverted. if you can make it to the SVP/MD level or equivalent, you're getting biglaw $$ (prob high six figs to $1M at a lot of banks), and that beats the fuck out of biglaw given that it's less work.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36766834)

I love in-house. Comp hit is real, but declining marginal utility of each extra dollar is far outweighed by marginal gain for each hour of free time. You can have a great, chill life with hobbies and such.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#36768354)

imagine that financial freedom is like trying to land on the moon

biglaw represents those huge boosters that u need to escape earth's gravity. good income but those boosters burn out far before u get to the moon.

inhouse is like the shitty, slow, engine that finishes ur journey to the moon so u can finally finish ur legal "career." it's slow as fuck bc u earn less than biglaw but that's okay bc (1) u're almost done saving and (2) if u aren't finished saving $$$, u can generally hang around inhouse for a while without getting the boot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4070772&forum_id=2#37810247)