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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did a clerkship, 5 years at BigLaw, became an AUSA, and just moved to Main Justice.  DOJ Honors was not on my radar screen coming out of law school because I wanted to make money and wanted to make partner.  Then I spent five years at a firm and saw that life didn't get better once you make partner.  The partners I worked for were still traveling all the time, still never saw their kids, and had the added pressure of bringing in new business.  I was lucky to be able to make the jump to being a federal prosecutor.  It is the most fun legal job in the world, IMO.  I make a pittance and still work pretty hard, but I have so much more control over my life and cases than I would even as a junior partner in BigLaw.  You definitely can make the jump from BigLaw to DOJ, but it is not as easy as some PPs make it seem.  Every time the USAO or my component now has an opening, we get literally hundreds of resumes from senior associates and, yes, junior partners from all the fancy firms.  A few of them get hired, but many, many more do not.

OP, I can't tell you what you should do.  Only you can weigh the unique set of factors that go into your decision.  I would, however, focus on what job you want to do right now, instead of what you hope to be doing down the road because what you want down the road has a way of changing when you actually get down that road.  You seem well-informed and savvy, and if you work hard and smartly and make good connections wherever you can, I think you'll be able to do what you want regardless of what your first job out of school is.[/quote]

This. fourth years from the top tier firms in DC getting rejected on the regular. [/quote]

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