Any insight on working as m&a counsel in-house? Hours as bad or not much better than firm? Is comp typically decent? For those in m&a legal counsel roles, have you found yourself doing a lot of the work in house or do you utilize quite a bit of outside counsel help? A few positions have opened up including at FAANG. Would love to hear insight in particular on the Amazon and Apple m&a legal teams.

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I do in house M&A type work at a fund. So not quite what you are looking at but may still be somewhat relevant. It is better than being in biglaw (for my tastes) but it’s still plenty of work and stress. We rely heavily on outside counsel. It is not a lifestyle position, but it doesn’t pay like a lifestyle position either - it is about $375-400k all in (base+bonus) coming out of biglaw as a 6th/7th year with some room to grow that gradually. So less than biglaw fully loaded but not drastically. But I love not doing timesheets and stressing about billable hours. I also think I prefer the nature of in house work. But my sense is the market is roughly efficient, insofar as for higher paid in house jobs, you’ll work your a— off and for true 9-5 lifestyle in house job you could easily take a 50 percent pay cut to big law

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There have been several posts about this previously you can use the search feature to find but TLDR anywhere doing a lot of M&A and WLB is the same.

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