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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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Partners at my firm barely mask their admiration when someone who is talented decides to take a corporate or sales position, or strike out on their own.  We just hope that person makes it big and leaves on good enough terms to hire us in the future.  Those of us ready to put in 40 years in law firms are a monied, but still dying, breed.  [/quote]

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