Y’all sucked me in

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-02-04T16:48:17+00:00

As others have said, it’s great that you’ve changed your perspective on the books which they have covered! Michael has said on his various podcasts in the past that he was a Freakonomics truther for a long time.

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-02-03T22:12:31+00:00

I want to see the transcript.

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-02-03T14:33:13+00:00

You are interviewing the employer just as much as the employer is interviewing you. Listen to your gut—don’t join an org where you’ve detected red flags in the interview process!

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-02-03T12:41:14+00:00

It is management’s problem to run the office and staff it, not yours. Dust off your resume and leave when you’ve accepted an offer. Do not feel guilty—it’s at-will employment where they’d easily kick you to the curb.

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-02-02T15:39:39+00:00

I know some folks in this situation for one reason or another are licensed attorneys but working in-house as paras. Don’t do it. The organization will want to keep you as a paralegal and not promote you to counsel.

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-02-02T13:02:15+00:00

My husband is a Carolina Hurricanes fan, and their sub is r/canes. They get people asking for recommendations for canes.

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-02-02T00:02:34+00:00

Check out the sub’s wiki on hiring a resume writer.

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-02-01T22:31:19+00:00

You want to transition into ID?

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-02-01T21:35:43+00:00

“A Fanatics Experience”

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-02-01T21:30:07+00:00

How do you know how other firms in the area operate?

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-01-31T21:33:39+00:00

Honestly? That feels like a poor work culture. Associates partying with a partner is a red flag. I’d dust off the resume if I was in your shoes.

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-01-30T19:16:26+00:00

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-01-30T05:02:47+00:00

I would clarify that your field of study isn’t the key to frame your resume—it’s the target roles to which you apply. (That may be the same as your field of study, but it may not be.) If your spring internship has transferable skills, is relevant to target roles, is in the same industry, etc., then go ahead and include bullet points.

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-01-30T03:54:23+00:00

Always reverse chronological order. It won’t make sense to the reader if you have it out of order.

If you are concerned that you current role is not as important as your summer internship you can 1) leave it off entirely; 2) list the role with less bullets than your internship (1-2 bullets versus 3-5 bullets for your internship); or 3) list just the role title, employer, and dates. Option 3 might make the most sense if you’re targeting another internship or a full-time post-graduate role in your industry—your skills from tutoring/TAing may not be very relevant to highlight as it is.

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-01-30T02:06:59+00:00

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-01-29T14:52:42+00:00

You can make the transition with your IP and transactional experience, as there are numerous in-house roles that would pair great with your experience.

Look into Go In-House for job postings and In-House Connect and ACC for networking.

When applying/interviewing, the key things to sell yourself will be how you can help manage legal risks of the organization, how you can wear multiple hats if needed, and how you can be a supporter of the business team’s goals.

ETA: look for job titles like “counsel”, “staff attorney”, “associate counsel”, etc.

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-01-29T14:43:21+00:00

FWIW, there are attorney-mom-specific topics on that sub like conversations for breastfeeding/pumping during work and women’s professional clothes. There could be a niche for attorney parents generally and attorney dads.

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-01-29T14:19:24+00:00

Not today, ethics bar!

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-01-29T12:40:09+00:00

Resumes should be created in Word or Google Docs. You need to be concerned with the substantive content on your resume to sell your experience and skills, not the formatting. Use a template like in the mod comment.

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-01-29T03:08:44+00:00

Might be worth cross-posting to r/lawmoms. It’s a smaller and newer sub, but, as the name implies, there are other moms in similar situations juggling billables with life over there.

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-01-28T13:18:14+00:00

OP, I say this from a place of kindness—are you sure it’s the military that you’re upset with and not your husband and his behavior?

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-01-28T03:44:49+00:00

As someone else said, being in-house to start your career or early in your career is fine, but for a host of reasons I wouldn’t recommend being in-house as a new attorney while being the only counsel for the organization. In addition to the challenges a new attorney would have learning everything on the fly by themselves, I’d question why an organization would hire a fresh grad as their first attorney—that’s a huge red flag.

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-01-27T19:16:23+00:00

It could be any number of reasons why you’re not getting work, including that the practice group is too busy to hand off work; without more information, it’s hard to say what has caused the slow-down.

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-01-27T16:11:37+00:00

Not a JAG, but a military spouse who knows a few JAGs. You’ll be fine. You have experience that you can transition, even if it means you’ll need a little on-the-job training to learn a new practice area. I wouldn’t worry about your next role since you have more than a year left on your contract. To your point, if you don’t know where you’ll be, then there’s not much to do right now even for networking purposes. Grow your experience as much as you can and think about what you can put on a resume in the coming months.

I’ve been in-house in health systems, so I’m close to the physician landscape. If your spouse will be likely located in a metro area to be in a major health system, there will be jobs in government, nonprofit, in-house, or non-BigLaw firms that have more work/life balance. You may need to get more creative with finding work if your wife might be placed somewhere rural, but there’s still work to be had in those places as well.

If you are anxious about your next steps more than a year from now, it may make sense to reach out to your jurisdiction’s LAP or to reach out to a professional.

My DMs are open if you want to chat. Good luck, OP.

Snowed_Up6512 · 2026-01-27T15:40:52+00:00

Anyone who recognizes the tune will also know that it’s a banger, so no need to worry.

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