re: What’s the best perk of your job?

I think one of the few perks of being an attorney is that nobody really cares how you do your work for the most part. I suppose the ability to get stuff done during the day is a luxury (pick up groceries, go to the gun range/gym, meet with contractors or whatever).

Firms for the most part avoid the bureaucratic nonsense of the corporate world (relatively). Needless meetings are rare, HR plays a pretty small role comparatively, etc. One of the few bad things I've heard from in house folks is adjusting to spending 2 hours in a meeting about nothing hearing from people who push paper and basically generate procedural work for themselves to sustain the need for their role.