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People don’t go IB to BigLaw. They go BigLaw to IB, usually with a JD/MBA

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Have seen a few people who absolutely hated finance go back to law school after a year. Honestly I think part of it is these people felt comfortable in school and law school is another prestigious ladder to climb. Biglaw is just as bad as finance, even worse to some degree because you have so much debt/opportunity cost from school and the exits pay poorly.

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the exits pay poorly.

They start at $215K+

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Sorry I meant exits from biglaw pay poorly - if you want to work lower hours there's not a huge universe of opportunities that still pay decently like there is in finance

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Oh ok I get what you’re saying. Although most big companies (non-law firms) have legal teams that need general counsel. The hours are lighter.

In general though law is incredibly boring. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
HFPM

I would disagree. I'm not a lawyer. 
 

I think the traditional law JOBS are boring but the law is actually fascinating because it's all about ambiguity. Just like markets. 

So in law jobs maybe you find them to be 20% fascinating and 80% boring.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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HFPM

I would disagree. I'm not a lawyer. 
 

I think the traditional law JOBS are boring but the law is actually fascinating because it's all about ambiguity. Just like markets. 

You're a retard. Almost nothing in law is ambiguous. Transactional attorneys are scribes who paper deals. Litigators engage in flooding opposing counsels with discovery requests and mountains of paperwork. Most of it is pretty rote and clear cut. I mean, M&A law has largely been settled since the 80s, which is why lawyers aren't lead advisors by any stretch 
 

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Just the idea that your best argument is that I’m a retard says all I need to know. 

 

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HFPM

I would disagree. I'm not a lawyer. 
 

I think the traditional law JOBS are boring but the law is actually fascinating because it's all about ambiguity. Just like markets. 

You're a retard. Almost nothing in law is ambiguous. Transactional attorneys are scribes who paper deals. Litigators engage in flooding opposing counsels with discovery requests and mountains of paperwork. Most of it is pretty rote and clear cut. I mean, M&A law has largely been settled since the 80s, which is why lawyers aren't lead advisors by any stretch 
 

former corporate lawyer 

Also, you’re missing the point which is that the JOBS are boring. But the ambiguity of the law itself is fascinating.

 
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What do you mean "ambiguity"? It is extremely clear cut. You seem like one of those "men" who wear notorious RBG shirts and think Sotomayor knows how to read. Stop fetishizing "law"

Pick your poison: Patent cases. Cases over failed m&a. Whatever. If there is risk that the market doesn’t understand how to price, there is an opportunity to make p&l in markets. That’s what I love. 
 

If you want to try to tell me or anyone else on here that all of those cases price at 100% certainty or that markets are perfectly efficient, feel free. 
 

but I’m saying as someone who never attended one minute of law school, they there is a a whole lotta money to be made by assessing risk others can’t understand and legal matters can be one type of that risk.
 

You can disagree but that doesn’t matter to me.  I’m perfectly happy with as many people being oblivious / ignorant as want to be. 

 

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