advice for big4 lateral to big law? salt… have an offer and want to do the best I can if I take the job

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yeah it’s salt controversy but from what i understand, they don’t really get to court often ever… so theres the transaction piece to it

There aren’t that many big law firms that do SALT. Are you willing to try a different area of tax to widen the opportunities?

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thank you counsel, sorry for coming off rude

Depending on your year in B4, there shouldn’t be much of a substantive/content learning curve, just a transactional drafting and deal process learning curve. I know plenty of B4 colleagues who’s tax technical knowledge far exceeds what I’ve seen in big law lol

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ty!!!!

if it's Greenberg traurig salt, id avoid

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