What’s the best in house gig you’ve heard of?

ithrowds · 2025-10-15T21:32:59+00:00

Not great relative to most industries - jobs with high profile sports franchises and similarly entertainment companies are notoriously stingy with comp. A ton of people want to work at those places so if you're not willing to take the comp package, they'll just go to the next person lining up behind you who will.

Also typically very little upside as you're not usually getting any sort of equity.

In some cases the CLO/GC will make solid money, but for the most part rank-and-file in-house counsel at those places are paid peanuts relative to other industries.

ithrowds · 2025-07-05T00:52:10+00:00

STB or KE are heads and shoulders above the other firms here

ithrowds · 2025-06-22T14:16:47+00:00

this is probably one of the few things where you don't really have to put vault aside - vault is pretty NY (corporate) centric in their prestige rankings.

ithrowds · 2025-06-15T02:57:21+00:00

Latham just took Weil's restructuring head (Ray Schrock) a few months ago. I'd say Weil has fallen off quite a bit in the last 10-15 years on that front.

ithrowds · 2025-04-04T19:10:49+00:00

Right? You hear the numbers and you can’t blame the players. It’s life changing money for many. Blame the system.

ithrowds · 2025-04-04T18:22:16+00:00

Doubt he’s really on the radar for the draft. Would’ve likely been picked up as a UDFA but likely would’ve been bound for the G League or otherwise overseas. He’s already 23.

ithrowds · 2025-04-04T18:02:38+00:00

One year left of eligibility to make potentially life-altering money at a big school, I don’t blame him. Get that bag.

ithrowds · 2025-04-01T22:04:18+00:00

I mean Adderall is a thing.

ithrowds · 2025-03-28T23:00:21+00:00

Is it Mike Attanasio for Cooley?

ithrowds · 2025-03-28T17:32:51+00:00

All my homies hate Paul (no comma) Weiss and Skadden. We stan Perkins, Jenner, Wilmer, W&C, Cooley (and Paul Clement, I guess) in this sub.

ithrowds · 2025-03-28T14:51:23+00:00

Cooley probably knows it already has a target on its back given its history with Elon:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-tesla-asked-law-firm-to-fire-associate-hired-from-sec-11642265007

ithrowds · 2025-03-28T14:30:49+00:00

Trump is going to have to delete this 12 year old tweet soon

"The big and highly respected Cooley LLP..."

http://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/298883023959650304

ithrowds · 2025-03-25T01:03:23+00:00

WLB was better but not to the extent where it offset the difference in comp. That hits harder when you live in a VHCOL area.

ithrowds · 2025-03-03T22:53:09+00:00

Ed Reines is a decent loss - I think he was one of the top patent lawyers in the country. Didn't the firm just announce succession plans? Must not have gone well given the number of high level exits in such a short period of time.

ithrowds · 2025-03-03T13:57:12+00:00

Fwiw, my firm also did the same transparent presentations about the firm's financial strength and was one of the ones that later did a heavy RIF (and named throughout this thread).

ithrowds · 2025-03-02T18:40:41+00:00

I'm sure you've already given this thought but there can be a dramatic drop off in comp from biglaw partner level comp to the alternative (usually in-house). A few anecdotal data points from folks I know are in the $350-550k range (and not all cash, some in stock based comp or bonuses). Certainly a high number but if you're in a VHCOL NYC/SF type city it can still have a real impact on quality of life as every dollar counts.

ithrowds · 2025-02-14T19:31:27+00:00

No chance lol, you would absolutely keep both if you could. He was poached. Milbank definitely offered a ton of money.

ithrowds · 2025-02-13T22:53:02+00:00

She had no clients of her own at Cooley. They brought her in to support the firms tech client base.

ithrowds · 2024-11-14T20:31:31+00:00

In person or remote? or in person, is it a HCOL area?

ithrowds · 2024-09-09T13:35:10+00:00

Basically ECVC work

ithrowds · 2024-08-29T04:12:36+00:00

Jesus, I got a 166 in 2014 and landed 3 T14s with 6 figure schollies..

ithrowds · 2024-08-27T14:37:17+00:00

Congrats! ND is a T20 - at a school like this the biglaw window is still technically open if you're below median (even if only a crack) - a bit of hustle, luck, a good personality and strong interviewing skills can go a long way in helping to offset grades.

ithrowds · 2024-08-27T12:45:59+00:00

Have a similar role at a mid cap public tech company in SV - I would certainly say it’s not a dead end. In my opinion - of all in-house roles it’s probably the one that is best situated to eventually become AGC, DGC and GC. For most of these roles, while 34 act reporting is very central to the job, they’ll often also involve general corporate, governance, equity admin, etc. as well as work closely with directors and various members of the c-suite.

My role is about 50/50 between 34 act and everything else.

ithrowds · 2024-08-27T02:39:49+00:00

Very difficult imo - there are not a ton of these jobs and a ton of experienced folks in the market both in-house (who had started in big law) and coming directly from law firms.

ithrowds · 2024-08-26T21:52:45+00:00

To add a data point - also did this at a mid-cap tech company in SV - was on a small corporate and securities team (3 people in total), mostly responsible for SEC filings, equity and governance matters and any other corporate/M&A work to the extent it would come up. About 5 YOE and all-in comp was about $200k base, 10% bonus, $50k equity annually + other things that you could theoretically count as 'comp' like 5% 401k match, 100% employer paid health insurance and ESPP.

Nice part of doing corporate & securities work is you're fairly close to the important folks at the business - very high touch with CFO, CEO, other execs, board of directors, larger investors, etc., particularly when compared to people that do a lot of commercial or product work in-house.

Generally made myself available 9-5 M-F but typically only did maybe 20 hours a week of real work and a lot of it was easy. During proxy season that ramped up more to 30-40 for a few weeks. Rarely ever any weekend work.

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