Had anyone worked as an in-house counsel in a startup and then moved to a law firm or another company? Was wondering how the transition looks like after working in a startup. Will it be hard to find a job in a midsize company later? Thank you!!

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The biggest difference is the job. In-house you’re providing advice/guidance, and providing it fast and in a workable implementable fashion.

In a firm your job is to bill, full stop. You don’t do anything off the cuff; you research it, draft a memo, send it to the client, schedule a follow up call to answer any questions and discuss next steps, and bill the everloving hell out of every step.

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Compare estimates? Bill. Compare photo sheets? Bill. Type a report to the client? Bill. Analyze your life choices? Bill it. Send report to the client after approval by the partner? Bill it. Client says “thanks”? Bill. IT.

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Regarding finding a job later, the benefit of a firm is you will improve your legal skills. Unlike in-house, at a firm everything you do is reviewed by one or more attorneys. You will work with multiple attorneys (reporting to them and opposing counsel), multiple clients, and a myriad of factual and legal issues.

You can take these experiences back in-house (where you don’t always have the luxury of spending hours researching something) and you’ll have a good “gut instinct” to be able to react quickly as you’ll know both the legal technical risks but also the practical side of whether something is likely to go sideways. And you can help reviewing outside counsel bills because you know how to cut out the fluff (being a certified fluffing expert yourself)

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I think biggest difference in a general sense is as in-house counsel you’re putting out fires and developing processes to implement vs as outside counsel, you address individual issues as they arise.

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