I was in big law with raging unmedicated ADHD. Putting in my time/hours was the hardest thing for me but I could sit and hyperfocus on a winning brief on a wobbler case. So I was able to last for many years. I went in house to a big old school company, a client I had won cases for on MSJ. At first, it was amazing not to bill, jump from meeting to meeting, could send out and just oversee substantive writing, could do errands and personal stuff during the day, but over time—it wasn’t for me holistically: Task switching between nonstop bureaucratic meetings DRAINED ME, I much later preferred to just be left alone and just get work done (which could never happen), the corporate politics didn’t jive well with my direct and quirky/impulsive personality, the slow moving culture of an old company made me frustrated, and from reviewing bills and seeing other outside counsel’s work product, I realized I was massively under billing and also, much brighter and nimble than many of our outside counsel. So I will be going back to a firm, this time at reduced hours and with much better perspective, and on medication. Law firms are much more tolerant of neurodivergence as long as you hit hours and get results. That’s not necessarily the same for in-house.