Thinking of going in-house. Have worked at law firms for 10-years. Concerned that if I spend a few years in-house and then want to go back to a law firm, firms will not consider hiring me given my years of experience. Has anyone experienced going back to firm after working in-house?

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I am in that situation and having a difficult time returning. But that might be in part because of my speciality practice area which is actively undergoing rapid deregulation

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Much easier to go from in house to firm than from firm to in-house. 10 YOE is on the higher end for a first in-house role: you’re too senior for the junior roles, and you’re competing with people with more direct in-house experience (eg, someone who was at a firm for 5 years and in house for 5). If you go in house and hate it, go to one of the firms your company uses a lot. They’re not going to complain about having someone with deep knowledge of that company.

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All of the partners onboarded during my time at my last firm (not big law) were former in house attorneys.

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I've noticed a lot of in-house folks go to boutiques, not biglaw, at least in my practice area.

I went to big law after 6 years working in-house

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