I’m a JD and worked in big4 international tax for a year now. Most of my work is compliance and find the working extremely boring. I do some consulting work, but my focus is on compliance. I’ve been applying for legal roles but its been difficult. Wanted to ask what I should be doing to do more consulting / legal work.

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Try to get into m&a or work as a specialist on cross border deals. If you’ve only been working for 1 year, you’ll need to do a bit to prove yourself prior to getting the consulting opportunities. I’m a JD/LLM and spent almost 3 years doing mostly compliance before I “proved” myself to do the consulting/m&a work

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I did. But not anymore. Once I got into m&a I have been very happy with the work I’m doing.

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The first year in B4 sucks. Plain and simple. If it wasn’t compliance it’d be PowerPoint editing. After that things get better in terms of opinion / memo drafting usually. Keep asking for consulting / structure / writing work and you’ll get there.

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