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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know the firm better than I do but I worked at a firm (Arnold & Porter) that had a ton of very long term senior associates. The firm was always rattling about doing something about it but in the end needed them to do the work and most of them are still there.

Of course he might make counsel again at the new place. It sounds like that’s his ideal niche?

But if he does have to leave, there’s a lot more out there for former biglaw than the old TLS boards led us to believe. [/quote]

That's good to know. He's not at Arnold & Porter. it's a branch office of one of the mega-firms, but very good size office. I feel like if he was going to make counsel it would have happened by now, but I could be wrong. I agree that's probably his ideal niche but no idea if that's a role you can lateral into elsewhere if it's not going to happen at his current firm.

Good to know there is more out there. I mean, he's smart and hard working and easy to work with, I'm sure he'll find something. Probably something he'd enjoy more, to be honest. It's more that I want to prepare myself for taking potentially a 50% pay cut. I'm planning on going back to full time work which will help, but was hoping we could make it until our kid is a little older and now not so sure.

Thanks for the insight.[/quote]

I assume he makes way more than $240k, so wouldn’t you have much more than a 50% pay cut if he goes to gov or in-house (unless he is GC).   Are you setup COL Wise to adjust to that?[/quote]

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