Should I leave my 400k total comp in-house job (10 YOE) to make 550k at a biglaw firm as Counsel/Senior Associate with potential for partner track?

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If you’re single and childless and love to work and want a sugar baby, go for it.

Kidding aside, you’d have to calculate how many more hours the new position is, what’s the actual net take home pay increase, and whether that’s worth it. I love being in-house, you’d have to pry my non-billable life from my cold dead hands.

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Answer here is pretty obvious. Big law equals stressful crappy life but if you’re cool with that and are hungry for more $$ then chase that money. Otherwise sounds like you found a pretty good spot for yourself, so do you’re comparatively easy job and invest well and forget about big law.

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