Anyone transition from transactional RE law to a more business side role? How did you go about the transition and do you have any avenues that you think are worth exploring?

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I went in house and my role expanded the longer I was there. I went from just lawyering to wearing both a business and lawyer hat.

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I went the opposite. Biz side to law school and circled back to biz side. Then jumped industries.

Comp is a function of the op you’re involved in. As a lawyer, you’re a transactional cost shaving cents off many transactions. On the biz side, you’re overhead with deeper ties to fewer transactions. Potentially better return, more equity chances, but less diversified. At the same time you might have more control of your fate and be less likely to catch the short end of ill conceived cost saving measures. It’s what you make of it, like anything else.

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I am in house and have not made this transition yet, but one of my colleagues has. She used to work the commercial leasing side as counsel and now works leasing on the sales side.

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What are more examples of business side

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I worked for a developer before law school. The GC there became their CEO after working as a GC for 5 years. She worked in-house before that for 3 years as well.

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^also interested to hear more examples

Went from transactional CRE to corporate counsel at a payment processing company, primarily doing M&A but also doing general corporate work. Lots of similarities between commercial real estate and more complex commercial business transactions so it translates well.

Making 20% more in house before bonus, benefits, and incentive units (if they sell, which is the 3-5 year goal)

I spent about 9 years at a large bank in workout, origination and relationship manager roles. You will start over, take a decent paycut and work your way back up. MBAs and accounting/finance degrees are the only ones that mean anything outside the legal department.

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