Is it realistic to generally not want to work late nights or while on vacation in-house?

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To not want to? That’s completely normal.

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I rarely work evenings and never on vacation.

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It varies a lot from company to company

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I never work nights or weekends and certainly not on vacation.

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What kind of law do you do?

It depends

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If I had to do that often I’d go back to professional services and make some money

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It’s ideal not to do that. I’m sure we all try to avoid it. I think sometimes it happens. I work through my pending matters (longer days/less breaks) before I leave and I’ve had to work on occasion. I’ve had to cover work when colleagues who don’t work hard/ are the kind of people who work 5 hours a day go on vacation so I try to avoid putting that on others. My F500 position was better for this than the position with a smaller 10 person team.

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If you’re solo or at the top, it’s unlikely that you’ll 100% have a hands-off experience at nights/on PTO. If you’re part of a larger team/report up to another attorney, it’s significantly more likely.

In a 30 year in house career, I worked around 5 to 10 late nights a year and worked while on vacation once or twice.

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