Professional services roles at big law - thoughts?

A specific role that reached out a while ago was project management for life sciences at Paul Hastings - anyone know salary bands and what it’s like in that kind of role? Would i be looked down on by lawyers at the firm?

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Being staff at a law firm is tough. You'll always be a second class citizen and looked at as an expense and not an asset. All my friends in staff roles have always hated it.

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Agree with A1. Raises are paltry and there’s always the tension between attorneys and “non-attorneys.”

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