What are your thoughts on the benefits or disadvantages of going in house right out of law school versus going to a law firm?

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In house is very limiting. You’ll have many more future options if you go to a law firm first.

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Been at both. Inhouse has worse training by far. All of the substantive work is either farmed out or you’re only in a supervising role. You won’t learn reasons for specific changes unless your senior GC is the type that monitors such changes and engages outside proactively in discussions. Flip side, you learn first hand what business side focuses on and considers significant and what risks are standard per trade and ok to give. You also become a good manager of outside counsels/vendors.

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