Trying to decide between in-house and big law. Not sure what the best move is for my career long term.

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If you don’t already have BigLaw, check that box. You can do in-house later. But very hard to go the other way and BigLaw will open more doors

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Check the BigLaw box. You’ll be a more competitive candidate all things be equal.

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Depends what you want. Big law you’ll be doing in the weeds work - compliance, drafting notices, dsar things, incident response maybe DPA/commercial contract negotiations.)


In-house you’re more of a business partner/product counsel where you’ll be navigating complex innovation initiatives to provide counsel on from a privacy lens and maybe more.

Assuming big law is going to pay more.

If it were me, I’d take in-house, having done both. I miss the novel challenges and fun projects in-house versus big law sort of being repetitive

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I’ve done both, definitely prefer in-house. At a firm now and bored out of my mind. It’s so repetitive. But I can relate to the toxic environment. I think that can be found at firms too so ymmv.

That depends wholly on your values/priorities.

In house provides more control, less working hours, although more spread.

It’s more about business and leadership.

Big law is about technicality, network, money and playing all sides. Forget family.

Since this was posted in Privacy Law, I can add that considering this niche area, one can go into Big Law for 2-3y and then jump to a CPO position; if you work on the “build up”.

Hope this helps somehow.

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Biglaw now.

The training is invaluable.

It's much harder to get back to biglaw.

Having it on your resume will open doors forever.

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Do you have both options available right now? Otherwise, it’s a false choice. Do some self-reflection and interviews on lifestyle and role/function in the organization.

Yes I have both offers on the table

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