Legal Marketing & PR

Thinking About Changing Legal Jobs - Inhouse, Perhaps? Think Carefully.

By lawjobspipeline

Working inhouse has been a growing attraction for many lawyers seeking to change legal jobs and who want to remove themselves from the grind of the six-minute unit and the pressure of private practice.  Query, though.  Is it actually any better?  Are the lifestyle benefits any greater?  Has the pace and nature of inhouse legal work become such that inhouse lawyers simply change one set of pressures for another - often similar in nature.

So let’s look at one recent article from a former inhouse lawyer who points out certain myths that exist, allegedly, inhouse. 

Gloria Cannon writes in LawCrossings that issues that figure large in the mind of those seeking a law job change - like salaries, lifestyle, the ability to easily return to the private practise fold and the like - are, well, myths in many ways.

Take a read.  Then ponder whether the move is necessarily what you really want or need?  It may be great.  It may not.  But at least make sure your change is informed and reasoned.

Full post as published by Lawyer Marketing Blog on March 26, 2008 (boomark / email).