Thoughts on corporate associate --> government position --> high paid in house counsel position?

From the very highly paid legal counsels, only a few had a biglaw --> partner track record.

For many their path into $$$ compensation package = spending every long years in various government/in house positions.

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I’ve seen this happen. The reality is that biglaw only makes you competitive for a small subset of highly competitive roles like in tech, and that is very much practice area specific. The majority of highly paid in house counsel were not from biglaw.

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