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[quote=Anonymous]If money is or will be an issue at all, I would do biglaw.  You should never expect that you’ll get the biglaw option again -- maybe you will after 2-3 yrs in DOJ, maybe you’ll come in as partner or counsel when you’re senior, or maybe the market will change again and they’ll be totally opposed to laterals.  I’m not suggesting that it’s an easy feat to get into DOJ later, but people do it; you already know what it takes so you can be tailoring your experience and networking as a junior associate while making 160k+ and building up a good amount of savings/paying down loans etc.  Also, if you have 2 small kids and are targeting a section like crim fraud, it may be easier on your life and family to do biglaw.  Biglaw juniors don’t travel that much and certainly not constantly.  I’m a biglaw senior now and I didn’t consider the junior years to be that hard - it was a lot of volume of work but other than that, nothing over the top difficult about it; and you didn’t have to navigate the politics, which leaves open plenty of time to be doing the types of resume building things that’ll look good for DOJ later.[/quote]

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