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For me, the most desirable attorney positions were at Justice and the U.S. Attorney's Offices. Those places are teeming with law firm alums, from junior associates to partners. But your problem will be several-fold. DOJ is being inundated with hundreds of resumes from people exactly like you. Whether you admit it or not, as a seventh year associate, it will be clear that you "need to get out." The attorneys I've seen hired at DOJ are not usually of the "need to get out" variety. Those from law firms usually do a few years, pay back some loans, and then head off to the public sector. In other words, most of them have always had as a goal public service, and their background and experience speaks to that. My guess is that you won't be able to convincingly persuade any interviewer that public service has always been a goal of yours. That fact alone will ding you from making the cut.[/quote]

Most components are under a hiring freeze anyway, with very, very limited exceptions to partially fill large amounts of attrition within given offices.[/quote]

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