Any management consultants turned lawyers in this bowl?

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I love being a lawyer but don't recommend it. Many jobs available are awful. It's a cut throat career.

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I am a lawyer that would love to be a management consultant

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DM me if you'd like to swap stories

Op, one of our new associates spent seven years as an Accenture consultant before applying to law school. A lot of her consulting involved mergers and acquisitions and she decided that she wanted to be running the deals. She’s super happy so far. DM me if you want an introduction. I’m sure she would be happy to speak with you.

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I’m an accenture consultant myself going to law school. Would love to chat further if that’s okay?

Why do you want to switch? I think some reasons are pretty legit and others are pretty poor.

I’m a former McK consultant. Tech law jobs can be good. But you have to weigh that good outcome against the path to get there. Law school is obviously expensive, both in tuition and opportunity cost. Then you’ll almost certainly have to practice in a firm for some number of years, and I think most would agree that Biglaw is worse than consulting. The only advantage is less travel, if you don’t like travel. (I personally enjoyed consulting travel for the most part.)

The other factor to keep in mind is it’s far easier to enter industry as a consultant because you are competitive for several different functions, whereas if you have a JD the opportunities are much narrower.

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Fishes! Currently, I am a Procurement ACon( tech implementation) but I have been put into reporting work ever since I joined the firm in November :(
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Is MS Excel a good to have skill for tech Consulting?
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friends I have 1-2 hours spare time with me,
I want to earn a little bit more say 100 rupees per day.

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While negotiating the offer the recruiter came back to me and said "We’re working through headcount planning right now. The position you applied to is closed". Looks like a hiring freeze. Does this mean layoffs are coming up? What about the candidates (like myself) who cleared HC and was in negotiating process?

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Received ECT AD in ops at BCG. I have two questions:
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If anyone's available to talk, please let me know! Would be very grateful for insights.

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I had accepted a offer with company A on feb 25 .
However I today a better offer from company B today and put it the mail that I would not be joining company A.

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Which investment brokerage would you recommend? I am looking into vanguard for a financial advisor. Any advice?

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If the average pay for Big 4 partners (I’m in regional firm) is 1.3 million annually, why do I see Big 4 partners living in such modest houses. I am having a hard time believing that Big 4 partners really make that much.

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Oh no I forgot to say our signature pages are held in escrow until our express release


And nothing happened

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I put in my notice last week at my current firm. MP was shaking with anger when I told him. Toxic partners, commonplace sexism, and widespread bullying. I was only there 6 months. Walking out of that office, I felt 50lbs lighter. I just want to remind you all that you’re better than some people will try to make you feel, and no one can look out for your interests better than you!

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Is anybody else a bipolar lawyer? I’m type 1. I feel like a unicorn.

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Anyone know what’s the deal with Polsinelli? Just trying to figure out whether they’re the right fit for me. I’m currently in a boutique IP firm. I work pretty hard but it’s obviously not Big Law.

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Anyone else in the second round of interviews with prospective employers finding it really hard to meet the hourly goals of your current job!?!

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My current job does not give me opportunities to write legal memos or briefs. I am applying for a different job and do not have a current writing sample because of this. Any recommendations on what to do?

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An observation: It’s very funny how junior (especially first year) associates working in transactional law can spend an entire deal screwing up signature pages, checklists, and redlines.... and then complain that it’s BS they’re “doing administrative tasks instead of legal work.”

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