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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1.  Senior attorney at a large Silicon Valley company.  Manage several legal teams.
2.  About $600k per year, excluding equity which is on average $700k - 800k per year.
3.  SLAC, law school, DOJ and then inhouse.  [/quote]

Would you say you are equally or more busy than someone who works at a big law firm?  [/quote]

I would say less busy.  I work around 50 hours per week.  More if it is EOQ, travelling to HQ  or leading a project with the tight deadline.[/quote]

How hard is it to land this type of job?  My husband is a partner in a mid-level law firm in DC and makes less than you do (only 2nd year partner not equity).  He works insane hours. We would both love if he could get a less busy job than he has now but cannot afford the pay cut. [/quote]

PP has a unicorn job. Mid-level law firm partner isn't landing that gig. [/quote]

+1.  PP may not be a unicorn job, because i think top lawfirm'ers could land it. But midlevel law firm partner isn't going to. [/quote]

Pp here - I actually have no idea if his firm is mid or top level. It’s top 100 firm in the country I think. But not top 10. [/quote]

NP. I think what they are trying to say is that you probably have to be in a big law law firm (appearing to be a "get" for the company) to land that job and make that money. The steady, reliable person doesn't get that job. Though I would say that the steady, reliable person could get a job working for the PP. But there is also so little job security there.
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So I'm the poster who works at the SV company.  The fact is that I worked in-house for the last 20 years and I never worked at big law firm.   Previous to joining the SV company, I was employed at a Fortune 100 company working on complex tech transactions (commercial and public sector).  The position paid well but opportunity for advancement was limited.  I decided about ten years ago that I needed a change of pace.  I wanted to work for a smaller company that had signigicant growth potential.  Obviously, there was risk with such a decision as the tech space can be a fickle beast.  I picked right and the unicorn turned into a company with a $100B market cap a year ago.  My teams have grown dramatically over the years.

Over the years, I have only hired one person from a law firm.  He worked as outside counsel on a project.  Typically, for management roles, we promote from within or poach talent from another tech company.   They understand the SaaS world well.  
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