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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not familiar with the work of the fraud task forces, and it seems like the best answer to your question will be very component-specific, but broadly speaking:

- Yes, both civil and criminal main justice lawyers go to trial.  This is a broad over generalization, but main is more likely to hold on to particularly interesting civil trials than particularly interesting criminal trials, which has to do with how cases are initiated and staffed. But if your job on the task force is a trial lawyer, you will participate in trials.

- Training is component-specific, but generally main justice attorneys are doing a few non-consecutive weeks of training in South Carolina versus doing one of the intensive rotations that a lot of big AUSA offices employ.

- Quality of life at main is largely personality-dependent. Plenty of people work very hard, but that's partially because they are the type of people who excelled at law school and never slow down. If you are determined to scale back, you can usually find a way to do so. AUSA offices are more office culture dependent, and which "large metro city" you go to matters. SDNY is the most obvious example of a place where the reputation is of attorneys work very hard in the hope of winning a high profile trial and going back private (though plenty of people make a career of it.

- Type of work is heavily component-dependent. Virtually every component of DOJ gives their attorneys substantially more responsibility and more interesting matters than they were getting in law firms. But whether that's trials or pre-trial motions or policy stuff depends on the listed job.

- You should be able to calculate your main justice salary online. The main thing to know is that its easy to top out the salary scale, which means: (a) you'll quickly advance through the salary ranks if you don't come in at the top; but (b) once you do, you'll never get a raise again. On average, AUSAs pay somewhat less than main, but the difference gets muted with seniority.[/quote]

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