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Tax in-house counsel, law school tax clinic, regulator (e.g., IRS, state department of revenue), Congress (e.g., Senate or House committee counsel that works on tax matters), public policy/think tank that works on tax matters, or, potentially, if you have enough accounting chops, VP of Tax somewhere. I'm sure you can occasionally switch over to more general corporate in-house work, but I wouldn't expect it to be easy.
I’m in-house tax counsel. Went from Big Law to Big 4 to in-house and back to Big 4 and finally found a permanent home. I’ve also had classmates also exit to banks and investment funds, or managed to leave the law altogether and go into consulting and investment banking. But those are rare occurrences.
As to VP of Tax Roles, depending on the company, a background in accounting is helpful, but most CFOs are looking now for a VP to manage planning, tax policy, department enhancements and efficiencies (ie, staffing and technology improvements). You’ll always have a provision expert who can manage the ETR and communicate the drivers behind rate changes (or hire one). Just my experience, others can disagree.
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Very helpful—thanks again!
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Another law firm ?