Does anyone here do forensic accounting work for a law firm? Care to share your experience, and how working for a law firm might compare to a consulting firm in this field?

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Former controller of a global law firm. We had in-house eDiscovery and some lit support but no real forensic accounting work in-house (outside of the anti-money laundering policies and procedures that we had to do for our own trust accounts but this was a role in treasury).

In my experience, I wouldn’t want to be anything at a law firm but a lawyer. You will absolutely be treated as a second class citizen. If you want to do forensic work, do it at a consulting firm where you have path to ownership and personal growth. You will be totally locked in a dead end career while the people around you wildly profit from your efforts.

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You mean just like bookkeeping for a law firm? Cause that’s very different from forensics work

I work at a cpa firm in family law litigation. So basically we do the accounting / numbers for a divorce case for the attorneys. we are still separate from the attorneys firms that we work with.

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