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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s harder to leave than you think.

I spent 10 years in biglaw as a litigator. I never got offered a single job in-house or in Fed gov despite applying widely. I moved firms a couple times just trying to find more peace but it was just as bad, even when I did ultimately accept a pay cut.

One reason I couldn’t get an in-house offer is I couldn’t move to where clients are because of DH’s job which pretty much only exists in DC.

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This. It’s not that easy to get a job like yours.

I’d be willing to bet your nonprofits fundraising department relies heavily on donations from big law firms….so these big law lawyers are subsidizing your salary….[/quote]

NP and doubtful.  Corporate donors, sure, but I don't think biglaw firms are bastions of charitable giving.  [/quote]

DP. Well then you’d think wrong. [/quote]

Some law firms (and some lawyers) give a lot, but the idea that "big law lawyers are subsidizing" the salaries of lawyers at non-profits is silly. That's like saying that large corporations are "subsidizing" the work of lawyers at large law firms, and therefor lawyers and large law firms can never criticize anything an in-house lawyer does or says.

OP's employer pays her for her work. It's a non-profit so the money they pay her with comes largely from donors (though could also come from investments via an endowment, we don't know) but those people didn't donate so that OP could have her job. They donated so she could DO her job, which is to enact the organizations goals, which donors presumably care about getting accomplished.. She does not owe big law attorneys for her job, that's absurd.[/quote]

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