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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you mean "stable" and what do you mean "safe"?

DH and I are both lawyers. We met at DOJ. I got sick of working 60 hours a week and no longer practice. FWIW, I did really enjoy practicing, there are just other things I wanted to do as well and wouldn't have been able to do them and practice the way I wanted to--I'm a bit of a workaholic. DH is now SES and works about 50 hours per week. He loves it. We didn't make Biglaw money but had amazing careers.

As far as "the judiciary" goes -- I apologize if I laugh at you thinking that is an option. An awful lot of brilliant lawyers want to be judges and never get the chance. I do know a few who did. And so I'd say this: if your kid wants to do that, tell them they will need to be political; and I don't mean passing out buttons for donkeys/elephants, although that doesn't hurt. I mean network, network, network. Publish, present, shake hands. If they are a conservative, a very active membership in the federalist society is necessary. If more liberal, there are other avenues.

Finally I'll touch on something you brought up: debt. I went to a very expensive law school and was fortunate enough to have family pay for it. Many of those who were on loans, which was the vast majority of my peers, have spent miserable careers doing what they have to do to make as much money as possible to pay back school loans. Most of them would rather be doing anything else. But they are stuck. It's ugly, and a lot of pressure. Especially when there is undergrad debt as well. So bear that in mind.  [/quote]

So two of you have laughed at thinking the judiciary is an option. Has it occurred to you that the judiciary employs lawyers and not just law clerks and staff attorneys? In the federal courts, we have attorneys who work in the Clerk’s Office, the Clerk and Deputy Clerk are attorneys, the Circuit Executive is typically an attorney, the Director of Workplace Relations is often an attorney, we have attorneys who work on judicial misconduct, there are lots of attorneys employed at the Administrative Office in DC. The federal judiciary is a fabulous employer and goes far beyond the Article I and III judges.[/quote]

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