Started in international tax with JD. Doing mostly compliance work - k2, k3, 5471, etc. If I want to build transferrable IT lawyer work, what should I be doing?

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Not that. Unfortunately a lot of the work at big 4 is compliance based. You can just BS your way into a law position by saying you did it, just over sell any consulting work you do.

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Doing the compliance stuff is actually great for going into consulting side later because you will have a great return foundation and will be able to spot issues much easier knowing what to look for on a return. I did a year of ITS compliance/consulting for a year and pivoted to M&A at EY and used that compliance experience as a plus for the group which did not have a big ITS background

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Agreed 100%.

Agree with the above. Would also try and do an m&a rotation at some point to get more deal and transaction experience.

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Unfortunately, ITS at B4 is very compliance heavy. Yeah you get consulting work here and there, but your main focus would be compliance. If you do not like compliance, pivot into M&A when market gets better, or network really well and get into either law firm or WNTS.

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At the very least while helping with compliance work, volunteer to do research and set up/handle calls with WNT as much as possible

Talk to your coach about specifically wanting to help with consulting work (M&A, strategic tax reviews, memos and opinions, etc.) and when looking for new work start by asking people that you know have a lot of consulting work, as opposed to people that specialize more in compliance

Another thought - at Deloitte at least there are two groups under the international umbrella that do 100% consulting work: GSG and VCA - would recommend exploring doing a rotation with either of them way before leaving IT entirely for M&A

Agreed with the sentiment that having both is really important. The compliance work teaches you a lot of the ins and outs of the technical side of tax work. A lot of the firm work is the consulting side, but imo you will be a much stronger on the consulting side you understand the compliance side

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Unless you live in NY, Chicago, SF- at any public accounting firm, ITS will be very compliance based - however, to do international tax you need to have a solid compliance foundation

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