Should you ask about benefits, PTO, parental leave, etc. after you get an offer or during interviews? I don’t want my questions to seem to imply I’m looking “too much” into the ancillaries before even getting an offer.

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I’d feel free to ask HR at any time but interviews are usually just with attorneys who won’t know the details off the top of their heads.

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You can probably find a lot of those details on the firm's website.

Get the offer. Then ask any question you can think of. When you have an offer, that means they want you. And at that point, the power is in your hands. You really have nothing to lose at that point. But during the interviews, if a question rubs anyone the wrong way for any reason, you might scare them away from ever giving you an offer.

Of course you’d have something to lose: the offer. But HR at a biglaw firm is not going to care at all about these basic questions and isn’t going to pass that along to the attorneys actually conducting the interviews. There’s definitely no reason at all to ask anyone who actually interviews you at any point during the process, though, because they’re not the people with that information.

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