*seeking advice* Thinking about making a switch from 3rd year litigation associate to in house for a major state university. Would be a pay cut but better WLB. Any advice, recommendations, or things I should know about GC for state schools? Questions I should ask in my final round of interviews?

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Unless you really want to try cases, I’d say take it! Universities are interesting clients and cushy places to work.

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Take it if offered.

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Congratulations on this opportunity! No advice but would love to hear (broadly and generally) what experience you leveraged for this.

The university has a large office of GC with attorneys of all levels of experience, the position I found was for someone with 2+ years of litigation and brief writing experience. I clerked for a federal judge (trial court) right out of law school and then worked in the litigation section at my current firm.

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