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Originally Posted by Unregistered
There are rarely any pure “liti” in-house counsel roles. Not in Singapore at least. An in-house counsel needs to be a generalist and corporate skills are a lot more relevant and valued - major disputes are usually rare for most companies. Companies who hire litigators usually put them in an operational role, think running the day to day contractual documentation rather than being involved in higher level work like M&A. IMO this means you’ll burn out a lot quicker because you’re usually dealing with low level contract / procurement managers and there’s a lot of volume work.
Also, the pay cut usually happens only if you stay too long in practice because you won’t have the corporate drafting skills required. A match is usually possible <5PQE.
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Agree with this post.
I jumped from liti to in-house at PQE 3 and got a pay raise. Thereafter, i got another pay raise after a year of "proving my worth". ******** lah - all corporate culture nonsense. You will need to be prepared for a lot of middle-management politicking when you go in-house, it's a different skill set altogether. Burnout is also possible from dealing with too many ridiculous people.
This was pre-covid though, so the market may be different now.
The scope of work you do will usually depend on company requirements - you need to ask about this beforehand so you know what you're getting yourself into. Companies are generally quite clear what they want from you and this is necessary for cost allocation purposes ie which entity/department pays what percentage of your salary.
I was with a european mnc and they weren't too interested in corporate work. I would say my work was 10% liti management 40% commercial 25% corporate/housekeeping 25% compliance.