First year associate in litigation offered an assistant in-house role for the construction division of a real estate development company. Asked to send an offer letter detailing my salary and benefit requirements. Don’t know where to begin. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!!

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YES! To the bar fees and CLE credits.

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Thanks!

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Is it reasonable to ask company to cover bar fees, continuing education, how much vacation time is acceptable, 401k, private stock options, salary?

I have had two in house roles with smaller companies. I would say completely reasonable to expect bar fees and continuing ed, I also requested and received fees for speciality legal association (in my case health care) but you may want to consider that. I would assume they have a fairly standard vacation allotment for the company although it might be possible to negotiate higher. No insight on stock options as that wasn’t part of my organizations options (non profit).

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