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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP— I appreciate all of your responses.  This is helpful as I may be valuing my own experience too greatly— because I’m so highly specialized in an area that outside counsel usually would be retained to handle, I thought this might compensate for no book.  Reading other threads tonight, even if I found such a position, making a change primarily for $$$ may be shortsighted without knowledge of the firm culture and actual expectations as to things like face time or up or out...and clearly I have not been asking enough questions because I had not previously known about no 401K matching or subsidized health insurance premiums.  Thanks for taking the time to help![/quote]

Don’t forget the complete lack of job security, as you’ll inevitably be among the first laid off.  [/quote]

When it comes to private practice, you're either IN or you're OUT.  This means that you either dedicate yourself to the firm, you you stay put in your safe government job.  Job security should not be underrated.  If you're still serious about going into private practice, I would set a 2-year goal of going to conferences, networking and publishing articles to build up a VERY strong reputation that the firm can sell to its clients.  You should also build up relationships with in house counsel who you would like to solicit for business.  In the end, that's what it's all about.[/quote]

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