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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I don't know why so many people on this thread are being rude, or actually, I guess I do, since it's DCUM so that's par for the course. FWIW, I have a close friend who is about to make the jump from being a Fed attorney at a prestigious agency to biglaw (bottom half of V100, but still definitely biglaw). He was offered 350K to come in as counsel. He's trying to negotiate an income partner role and $400K, plus origination credit, but it may not work out. This is in a HCOL city on the west coast, similar to DC. This number is consistent with the number we've heard for colleagues who have made the jump recently (this is for line attorneys, not those in high up leadership positions or those who worked on super high profile cases) to similarly-ranked firms.

That said, my friend was promised that he would have plenty of billable work for him while he began to build his own book, and was told to expect a two year runway to get things going. So I do think the fact that your DH was not given any billable work is pretty unusual, especially considering they knew he wouldn't have a book coming from the gov't. [/quote]

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