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[quote=Anonymous][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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DP. Thank you for taking the time to explain that. Are you saying that it is really about taking the risk early on and it paying off.

And are you saying to someone who needs to step into a better work/life balance and/or more money, this isn't a realistic possibility?[/quote]

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