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[quote=Anonymous]OP there is no failure in using your top 10 degrees to go in a different direction other than law esp since you say you have other interests besides law; whether that requires more school or requires hopping into pharma sales or teaching or whatever else you’ve considered.  I have seen people do it and be successful and happier than their biglaw classmates who live in the partnership purgatory or make partner and then live in fear of being de-equitized or hop from one firm to the next killing themselves for partnership while throwing gov’t apps in every which direction hoping one sticks; often the gov’t app that sticks is not an agency they want but they take it and hold on tight because it is security.  In some ways you make your own success in life.

Don’t worry too much about what the biglaw partners and associates around you say.  I know at my firm there was a lot of nay-saying whenever anyone went on to anything besides another firm, gov’t or in-house; now that I’m more senior (and am planning to make money in biglaw and then hop off to go do something else), I realize that it is just a way for partners to justify their own choices – i.e. that person is so dumb to not make partner/leave before partnership, look at all the money they won’t make. Meanwhile partners don’t realize (or maybe don’t admit) that many corp executives and people in areas like sales do REALLY well financially and aren’t tied to the health of any one company; so if you end up in pharma and suddenly your co. isn’t doing well, you can hop to another one without worrying about the size of your book.  Once you make partner (unless you have a serious book), you are pretty much beholden to that firm keeping you forever – you don’t have career or geographic mobility really.
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