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I have received an email after my interview with HCL from consultant stating I have selected for HCL technologies and asking for information like, when U was interviewed and whether I received any link for documents upload from HCL.
I replied to that email saying interview has been done and I am yet to receive any link from HCL for documents upload nor any call from HCL HR.
Can anybody suggest, whether the process wil take time or where should I contact for further process.HCL Technologies
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This is a kind of compliance job for a lawyer’s lawyer with pluses and minuses. There will be plenty of routine work, but the work is also likely to be intellectually stimulating from time to time and will occasionally involve you in conversations with rainmaker partners and firm management on high profile matters. In addition to identifying conflicts, you will have the opportunity to apply creativity in constructing “walls” or other measures to eliminate conflicts, to earn respect from the powers that be, and to gain a deep understanding of the ethical rules dealing with conflicts. However, if you are doing your job well, you will sometimes identify conflicts the firm would like to ignore, and sometimes be telling the firm that a certain matter cannot be taken on — and you no doubt will be reviled by the folks who wanted to take the matter on.
That last part is true, I think no matter what area of practice you're in. Someone will always want to ignore your advice.
Also what do you do at big4? Consulting? In-house?
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I had a conflicts offer from Wilson Sonsini’s main office in Silicon Valley - I didn’t not accept it.
The position was hourly (40ish/hour) but with the expectation that you would work overtime at a higher rate. - Everyone I interviewed with said it was a great w/l balance but recognized that the work is not “legal” in the traditional sense. Also the positions are pretty much a dead end. WS is a fairly large firm but there were only about 7-10 conflicts attorneys including a Dept manager.
For me the lack of ability to do actual legal work and the dead end nature of the positions were not enough to justify the low hours and decent pay. However I ended up going to another biglaw firm as a litigation associate so it was really comparing apples to oranges. But I imagine that calculus is a lot different coming from an accounting firm.
What’s your reasoning for the switch? Conflicts can be fairly administrative and repetitive helping attorneys with their conflict checks and waivers.
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Choising a conflicts job will only advance your legal career in conflicts. It's pretty rote, with some follow up detective work to see whether potential hits are really related entities.
I would not take it.
Not worth taking it. Any biglaw job that's not on the partnership track, whether you want it or not, is a dead end proposition. You'll be amongst the lowest paid attorneys, save for staff attorneys.
Thank you so much for the feedback, this really helps.