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Im in this group (4th year). I feel like I am not nearly as sophisticated as my m&a lawyer friends due to the cookie cutter nature of the work, but significantly more networked (though the clients I network with rarely need an inhouse lawyer). What interests you in the field? I think tech trans is the best for inhouse.
My only warning would be to prepare for tons and tons of very cookie cutter work, even at midlevel - senior levels, and constantly explaining that to founders - things like offer letters, option grants, board consents, basic financing docs (SAFEs, convertible notes, etc.) I would also say about 10-20% of my work involves managing cap tables and modeling out various sometimes complex financing scenarios/pro formas.
AMA. I was a paralegal in SV for a long time. Before that paralegal in NY. After law school, tech work, then seconded to a unicorn and then moved to a different unicorn.
I’ve heard from some associates like A1 that the work can be cookie cutter, but others I’ve spoken with have had the opposite experience. They’ve said they regularly get to work on a broad range of legal work for their start-up clients and also get to act as general outside advisors to clients much sooner than your typical corporate associate gets to. What’s your experience been?
M&A associate who later added EC/VC to my practice 4 years in. Have oddly found M&A to be much easier and that I’m mediocre at the EC/VC stuff but I may just be dumb