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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience with DOJ, the litigation attorneys are definitely underpaid, and it gets worse over time. Once attorneys max out in the DC area at $155K, their salaries stop increasing with experience or seniority. Then, all the really good, highly experienced attorneys get recruited by law firms and leave the govt. It is a waste of the govt's money to have to start with fresh attorneys, train them, and then lose them. Even worse, for really big trials, the govt will sometimes actually pay private practice attorneys (some of them having left the govt for higher pay!) hundreds of thousands of $$$s to litigate for them. Stupid waste of money. If the govt had simply raised their salaries they might not have lost them only to re-hire them at private practice rates.

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Most of you, particularly women, work for the Fed. govt. because it is family friendly and Big Law isn't.  Also, many govt. attorneys go as high as they can go and then manage to find a partnership in a DC firm.  You know this is true and so do the rest of us.  As far as I'm concerned maintenance, clerical, administrative and middle management deserve to make a decent living as well.  To answer the question, yes, most govt. lawyers are overpaid because I've seen too many of you "work to rule" and do virtually nothing.  [/quote]

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