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[quote=Anonymous][b]I don't think DOJ Honors will have any meaningful impact (positive or negative) on your ability to make partner down the road. When you're a senior associate, people will evaluate your legal skills, your responsibility, your potential to bring in business, and the weight your rabbi commands; those are the factors that will determine whether you make partner or not.

DOJ may give you trial experience, which could help your climb at BigLaw, but that's just the start of the climb. If you're looking at a highly desirable BigLaw position, I'd take it now. But if you're looking at a mediocre BigLaw position, then go with DOJ and hope to parlay that into a better BigLaw job later. [/b]

I don't agree with this at all. My husband did DOJ Honors in a relatively prestiguous section, and seven of his collegaues in that section have gone, as partners, to large law firms in the past two years. They all clerked and they had all tried several cases. Meanwhile, my husband's friends who went straight to biglaw out of their #1 law school are scrounging around looking for positions at US Attorneys offices, etc., so they can get experience because they have been told they will not make partner if they just stay and hang out. His friends that went to small law firms are doing well, however, and many have now made partner and make more than their straight to biglaw counterparts.

I went to a low top 25 school, did not get great grades, but did well, did not clerk, and have worked in both biglaw and small-ish law for eight years. Never had any issue getting or keeping a great paying job doing interesting work. [/quote]

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