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I've been coming to the exact same conclusion myself recently. My understanding is that the end goal for that path is going in-house, which, while having its own ups and downs, beats basically being a salesperson constantly looking for clients.
Made that goal happen! And yes, the grass is greener at least for me.
Totally feel this as well, but also don’t want to have to bill 2100+ hours for the rest of my life.
This is 100% fine. It takes all sorts of lawyers in all kinds of roles to make a law firm tick. There are plenty of lawyers who love business development and are are super at it, but have little interest in doing the actual work. They can run a multimillion dollar firm, but need folks who handle the cases.
And even within the actual legal work, people can specialize. Some folks hate writing but love depos, trial, mediation. Others are the opposite.
And as others have said, you can always change your mind. Do your thing, kick ass, and see what happens.
Feel this.
I’m only 3 years out, and this is my current feeling. It could change in 16+ years.
I became a lawyer to practice. Not to run a business or manage people. At least not any time soon. I’m not even 30 yet so I recognize there’s potential to want different eventually.
When I made counsel, I was thinking a lot about whether I wanted to push for partner or stay in the counsel role. I was offered NEP at another firm, so figured why not give it a try? I was there for 5 years, hated trying to bring in work, and decided I didn’t want to give one more second on my life to law firms, so moved to an of counsel role at another firm. Currently part time counsel at a different firm. No regrets.
Just come in-house. At a large company you can be a senior corporate counsel without taking on leadership roles.
There are a lot fewer in house positions than there are firm positions tho so you have to plant the seeds early and plan ahead for the move and the (often) pay cut.
Yo ho yo ho the counsel life for me!
I would recommend finding an in-house legal roll. I have been lucky to work in-house my entire career and have no intention of joining a firm.
There are more around than you think there are. You will need to take a pay cut from a firm, but you will get back a work life balance, not have to chase work and no billable hours. There is also the satisfaction of seeing matters from start to finish.
Look at the bigger corporations, community legal centers, Universities or Government.
I decided at my last big firm I didn’t want to be a partner. I don’t like bringing in business or managing clients.
Ugh. Feel this so much. If you’re a woman, the expectation to handle your partner’s admin is ten times worse. I’ve been handling bills since I was a third year associate.
And it doesn’t go away when you get to partner level either. It just matters more. One guy on my team bills 2300+ hours every year (he’s a NEP) but another woman on my team bills at least 200 hours less than him every year (also an NEP). Guess what - she’s in charge of client relationships, admin, distributing work to our team, supervising several associates, and all kinds of other non-billable work. The team lead always tells her that those extra non-billable hours don’t matter - except that they do.
While she’s doing several hundreds of hours of admin, the other partner is using that same time to bill hours. So every year he bills more hours, brings in more money, gets a bigger bonus, gets better raises and the gap just keeps widening.
Obviously yes. Just be a producer. You can also join a government job. You can be your own boss and go solo as well. Lots of options.
I went solo as a court appointed family law attorney. This job has its issues as well, but it is really more about the practice of law than managing a law firm and dealing with everything you mentioned.
I didn't want to be a partner at my last firm [and I wasn't the only one]. Because of the way they handled their money, I never could have afforded to be a partner there. Unfortunately, they also didn't have any other titles, so you were either associate or partner. After practicing for a while,I now care less about partnership, and more about ensuring I have a steady income.