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Date: May 19th, 2012 11:30 AM
I have been an attorney for two years. I have an accounting ugrad and finished top 5% from a T30. NEVER had I considered this type of law, but dodging the corporate BS and making more money sounds enticing. Any thoughts? |
Date: May 19th, 2012 11:31 AM So you can work one year at this new job and make what you'd make in a decade at your current job? |
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Date: May 19th, 2012 2:41 PM |
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Date: May 19th, 2012 11:32 AM |
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Date: May 19th, 2012 11:58 AM He could do his dad's job for like five to six years and earn what he'd get his entire career at the other job. |
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Date: May 19th, 2012 11:33 AM |
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Date: May 19th, 2012 11:37 AM
That doesn't mean you will make anything CLOSE to that.
Your dad has spent an entire career building his firm and gathering clients. People come to him b/c they KNOW what he's capable of or thru word-of-mouth.
I'd take it over only if you are prepared to suffer the good and the bad LOOOONG before you hit your first big case. |
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Date: May 19th, 2012 11:39 AM
u seem dum |
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Date: May 19th, 2012 11:46 AM |
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Date: May 21st, 2012 7:42 PM |
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Date: May 19th, 2012 3:19 PM
You can do things when and how you want to b/c you have clients who mostly will have no idea whether you're doing the right thing or not, you don't have to run your drafts and strategy calls by them to nearly the extent you do on the defense side.
Caveat 1- I'm a civil defense litigator so that clouds my view somewhat as compared to OP's in-house corporate situation
[edit] Caveat 2- I'd love to find a similar situation, but lack the relative in the business. have thought about whether i can just find an old lawyer who lacks someone younger to take over in his family and propose a similar arrangement where he phases out and keeps making money b/c I'll be much better at the legal than most idiot assocs he could hire and need to supervise |
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Date: May 20th, 2012 10:22 PM |
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Date: May 21st, 2012 11:45 AM |
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Date: May 21st, 2012 11:59 AM
BOTH of those barriers are eliminated in OP's scenario.
I sit right now as a clerk going through the correspondence on a "proof of due diligence" deal, making shit, my "shitlaw boss"...he doesn't come in on mondays. He just jiggles his balls at home on mondays. It's not a bad life once you get past the shitty first years which you are being offered to essentially SKIP.
sounds like a good deal, bro. |
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