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A very little bit is usually seen as a good thing.  
Too much is a bad thing.

If you want to do none, at the vast majority of firms nobody will care or maybe even they will secretly think of it as positive though they would not openly say that.

EXCEPT

If the big boss wants to bring you in on something then you say yes and treat it like any other important matter because its important to big boss so its important to you.

AND IF

Someone is leaving and they need a pinch hitter then it depends on your workload (really busy, OK to say no, not really busy, don't) and good on you if you are more senior and can spin it into a sort of mentorship / leadership thing but not spend too much time on it.

Also the time consuming housing, etc. cases are for junior people so once you age out of it you need to move on to something more high profile or supervise junior people or just do billable work.

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I am a deal lawyer too so take that for what's worth.  But this is how I've seen it shake out for deal lawyers and probably how I'd view it myself as the managing partner.  [/quote]

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