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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, I think you need to adjust what your idea of what kind of job you're going to get.

As others have said, law firm salaries attorney jobs (even small firms) are likely out of the question at this point.  Fed is on a hiring freeze, but has been super tight for years.  Once the freeze unfreezes, there is going to be a glut of gainfully employed attorneys looking to move to the fed (for the quality of life) who were backlogged because of the freeze.  It will be years before the fed is going to hire underqualified attorney.

regardless of not having found legal employment, you also have the issue that you have been unemployed since the bar exam (presumably in July 2016).  Regardless of industry (legal or not), the great recession forever changed the game vis a vis the unemployed. Once you become unemployed for more than a couple months, the new economy basically means that you're not going back in at the level you would have had you not been unemployed.  That means:  much lower pay, jobs with lower responsibility, jobs without benefits, contract and gig work, unpaid internships etc.

so at this point, i think it's unreasonable to expect you'll find a salaried job that requires your law degree.  At this point, i think your priority should be to find anything to put on your resume that remotely ties to your law degree (unpaid clerkship, low paid policy position, volunteering, etc).  Sorry to be the bearer of bad news....[/quote]

This is true.  But as one of the PPs alluded to--all road lead to Rome.  You're still young (from the sound of it), so just keep your head up and keep fighting.  This should be a merely blimp in your life if you don't let up.  [/quote]

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