Anyone join a strategy team at law firm? Reading description on linkedin and it seems like it's just mostly PMO work.

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Can’t imagine a consultant would be very helpful to lawyers.

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Im talking about an internal role, since that’s what op described. A consultant would fit into corporate strategy roles nicely but in big or mid law there is no corporate strategy and very few decision makers will not have a JD.

Of course they will bring consultants in for specific requests but as an internal role for guiding the direction of a law firm? Not happening.

And yes, 95% of them don’t have biz acumen. But only a select few run the place.

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I was about to interview, but after talking it over with my wife (she’s a lawyer at a top law firm), she convinced me not to. Her point was that the role would mostly be about building business cases for whatever the head legal partner(s) wanted that day—for example: “Which market should we enter?” => analysis => “Okay, let’s look at another market anyway.” It felt like there wouldn’t be much real impact.

At the end of the day, you want to be in a role where you’re the main driver of revenue (e.g., lawyers in a law firm or consultants in a consulting firm) rather than supporting decisions without owning outcomes.

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that makes sense, so a lot more of the upstream work rather than creating impact

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