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I feel you. In my practice, I get down in the weeds with clients and am pretty integral in structuring their deal, which effectively means, I'm the one putting their project together.
The part that gets me is that once the deal is papered, I disappear and the project I put together and then they go off and do the project. Sometimes I wish that I was able to remain more attached to the project. But on the other hand, part of me very much enjoys the volume of clients that I'm able to assist, whereas if I were in-house, I would just have those several projects.
i.e., not e.g., but agree with the sentiment generally. Depends on how many YOE, your scope of knowledge and whether clients could use you in the role.
Move in house. My job leans a lot more exec/operational no. Financial too, but those numbers really put me to sleep. Lawyers have been known to transition from legal roles to business roles once they’re in house.
Subject Expert
You can definitely do it. I know multiple former biglawyers who went in-house and then transitioned to more and more biz heavy roles or just went straight to biz roles. You’re learning the industry not just the law.
What’s your year level, though? I feel like I get to input on biz decisions a lot really (decade out from school) and see the same in the most successful partners I work for. I’m in finance and all legal calls are at some level a credit call. Also we understand client business and what they’re really concerned about better than the clients sometimes (less sophisticated and/or less experienced clients) and it’s really a full service consultation we’re providing. E.g., when you say things like “I see my other lender clients are doing XYZ and that may be a way to address this issue you’re having”, that’s really about industry and market understanding, not a straight up legal issue.
Coach
As you move up the food chain this is essentially the kind of advice you will be giving eventually, but understand wanting to shortcut it