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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here ... thanks for the info!  For those of you who have moved have you found that the quality of life has increased exponentially? Do you work a lot less and are less stressed?

DH is worried about leaving to go in house just to make less money and still be extremely stressed and work all the time. The GCs and counsel who he works with all seem equally as stressed as him and work all the time. [/quote]

His experience is due in part to the reality that most companies typically only use outside counsel for higher stake, stressful matters. Depending on your practice area, the day to day work of many in house counsel is less stressful, with occasional peaks (during high risk litigation or investigations, during M&A that puts your job at risk). And, as anywhere, it also depends on the personalities of the people you work for and with. So look carefully and ask the right questions.

In our experience, we have not missed the money because we make more than enough for our standard of living, and our quality of life makes us look back on our firm days and wonder what we were thinking. After you cross a certain income threshold, most people begin to value time over money (that threshold varies by person too).[/quote]

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