Curious to hear people's take on this:

A contracts manager w/ 7YOE & a JD is about to become a fully licensed attorney. Their attorney manager says congrats! But you are doing great here supporting me as a contracts manager and I don't have an attorney position for you - please stay & I will toss you some legal work here & there. The CM thinks their salary could double elsewhere 4 same amount of work in an in-house role.

If you knew someone in this position, what would you advise them to do?

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Leave and look for a salary doing the right level of work to match qualifications. Assuming you, errr this third party person, don’t want to be a contract manager forever since the now have a license to practice, it would be silly not to look for other opportunities that pay more, provide higher level work, and likely train and prepare you much more for future opportunities.

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If they actually want to practice law, leave. I had a similar situation happen to me. The attorneys in my life said it would be harder to get in to practicing the longer I stayed in the non attorney role. I took their advice and do not regret it.

Think about it this way: your resume tells a story. Stretch projects like the occasional legal task don't really show up in a resume like an actual legal role does. If they stay in this role and eventually get laid off/terminated, what will their next employer think about someone who spent no more than 20% of their time working as an attorney vs. a peer who spent 100%?

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Let's see:

half the pay with no guarantee of using fancy new qualification

OR

Double pay getting actual legal experience.

Tough choice.

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Yeah no brainer - is this a real question? Like a hard decision? Why go to law school to keep the same job with some “random” legal work? Bail!

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Leave - they will never see the CM as an attorney. Go somewhere else and leverage your knowledge for $$$$$$

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leave in a heartbeat. This response signals that they will be forever slotted as a contracts manager and to escape that they have to leave even if they really like their workplace.

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GTFO.

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