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[quote=Anonymous]I had a passion for it for probably the first 15 or so years of my career.  I did criminal trials and appeals (public defender agency) and the appellate work was very interesting and rewarding (not financially).

Two years in private practice were not fun.  The first 10 years of federal agency practice were also fun, interesting work, lots of responsibility, etc.

By the late 1990s the chipping away at the professionalism and respect for attorneys in federal agencies (by Clinton, Bush II, and Obama), combined with the general decline in the professionalism of legal practice into just another make-money grind, took away a lot of the passion.    I had passion for about 30-40% of what I did, which was enough for 15 yrs. or so.

But when I had a chance to retire a couple of years early I took and and after 33 years of lawyering, I'm pretty much done with it.

If I were to go back it would be at a small firm focusing on my areas of expertise, I would never go for Biglaw.  Nearly everyone I know there is miserable and we'd get resumes from many seeking a federal agency job when we had openings (which was rare) in my specialized area of practice.[/quote]

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