Has anyone decided they don’t enjoy practice, but likes the environment, and made the transition (either directly or after a few years doing other things) from practice into the admin side of a firm (their firm or another) e.g. recruitment, diversity, practice manager, professional development? If so, could you please share your experience of the pros and cons and whether you’d do it all over again instead of, say, going in-house? Thanks.

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I moved from BigLaw to academia to a startup that works a lot with BigLaw PD. Most of the PD folks I work with who used to practice seem to really like their jobs.

Yeah I’ve always wondered about the salaries of those positions.

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