Want a seat in Google’s or Nvidia’s legal department? Pick your law firm carefully. Pirical tracked alumni of the 200 biggest US firms now in legal roles at Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX. Morrison Foerster and Wilson Sonsini tied at the top with 40 each, Latham followed with 33, and revenue king Kirkland landed 11th. Cooley punches above its weight with 29, nine of them at Nvidia. Google alone employs 322 alumni of the top 25 firms.
The pitch for these Big Tech legal jobs is familiar: no billable-hour quotas, a seat closer to the business and one client instead of dozens. Plus, a recruiter notes, the AI questions are where the interesting work is. No wonder technology legal jobs draw so many Big Law resumes. Plotting the jump? Our guide to managing your in-house career covers the next moves.
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