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[quote=Anonymous]My niece is in 2L at a top notch law school and has secured a summer spot at a top DC firm (where, if she does well, is likely to get a job offer).

She's also extremely interested in the DOJ honors programs - the areas that are most interesting to her (and that accept applications from law school) are criminal division, cyber fellowship, fbi, and national security division).

I have a couple of questions...

She's obviously interested in being employed after law school and (deservedly) proud of the DC firm she's secured her summer placement with and the strong possibility of the placement carrying over to a job offer.

If she receives a job offer after 2L summer does she just be thankful and forget about the DOJ interest - or is there any diplomatic way to apply for DOJ honors while having a post-L school offer (if she receives one). And if she were to apply for DOJ honors and not get it, could she then circle back to the firm?

The firm she's summering at has lawyers who have worked at high level in USG as political appointees - but we're just not sure about the 'politics' of a summer student who (potentially) has a job offer - and then wants to apply for DOJ honors but then keep to DC biglaw job if the honors application doesn't result in a job.

Can anyone with knowledge about the realities and politics of this sort of scenario comment.  [/quote]

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