I am a federal attorney in one of the administrative agencies, mostly litigation work in a article I court. However, I will be joining the DOJ or an US Att. Office shortly.
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Quote from: goaliechica on June 22, 2008, 09:38:12 PMQuote from: theor on June 22, 2008, 09:29:27 PMI am a federal attorney in one of the administrative agencies, mostly litigation work in a article I court. However, I will be joining the DOJ or an US Att. Office shortly.What's a typical career path to work at a U.S. Attorney's Office? What do they look for? Edited. I don't think there is a typical career path. Just get a job where you do a lot of litigation. They have former DAs, big law associates, and other people from federal government transfers like myself.
Quote from: theor on June 22, 2008, 09:29:27 PMI am a federal attorney in one of the administrative agencies, mostly litigation work in a article I court. However, I will be joining the DOJ or an US Att. Office shortly.What's a typical career path to work at a U.S. Attorney's Office? What do they look for? Edited.
Quote from: Bulldog86 on June 22, 2008, 10:34:00 PMWhat's the one piece of law school (and/or law career) advice you wish you had been given (or, that you got and wish you had taken)?Knowing what you know now, would you still have chosen Chicago? I assume you got, or could've gotten, significant money at more regional schools; did you make the right call to go with the name?"how are you coping with the loans now? Did you pay most of them off?The LLM route sounds very scary. I guess I'll just try to get a NYC job if my grades aren't hot."I was fortunate insofar as I was unfortunate enough to be in major financial need. Chicago came through for me with a large scholarship that matched what was offered me from most other schools. The first thing I thought when I got my LSAT was, "I can get full tuition to Thiomas Jefferson!" No kidding. On the other hand, I had to take out more loans for the LLM. Totalling about 145k, I pay about 1/3 my salary in loans. It hurts.I am glad I chose Chicago. While in the LL.M. program I got more interviews than anyone else thanks to that name. Essentially, once I stopped competing with other UofC grads it made a huge difference. While at UofC, doing OCI, it made no difference because I was only being compared to other UofC students. Out in the real world, my UofC degree gets my foot in a lot of doors. Now that I've had my first job and have learned to interview very well, I know that the sky is the limit. I still get calls from headhunters thanks to this degree, no one I work with does. I also get this presumption of intelligence from my coworkers. I sometimes wonder whether I should have gone to UCLA, who knows how that would have turned out. All is well that ends well, so I wouldn't change a thing. I can say that I owe a lot to the UChicago education, my current job, my wife, my kid, friends, maturity, meeting great professors (including Barack), and so on. I am beyond regret.I do wish I had more money or no loans, but if I really wanted to I could start responding to the head hunters. I take that back, my wife won't let me. She wants me at home.
What's the one piece of law school (and/or law career) advice you wish you had been given (or, that you got and wish you had taken)?Knowing what you know now, would you still have chosen Chicago? I assume you got, or could've gotten, significant money at more regional schools; did you make the right call to go with the name?
Do you feel that your experience is representative of people with your grade situation? Did any of your classmates who were in your situation have better success by being more focused (e.g., the corporate tax example you gave)? Do you think you would have been better served by looking for some jobs in a low-demand specialty (e.g. admiralty law) where a U of C degree would presumably go further than in generic "biglaw"?
I never drank before that, was straight edge (but not religious).
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