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[quote=Anonymous]Hi OP - You are not going to get an of counsel position, given your qualifications and experience. Those are for experienced lawyers who have special expertise, or who have lots of clients.

I am a former biglaw lawyer with lots of friends who are still in the field. It's grueling. And, honestly, if you are a year out of law school and haven't already started working in that world - and/or don't have the sort of experience that makes you valuable to a firm - it's too late for you to get in there.

Which is great, since that is incompatible with what you say you're looking for, anyway - which is a lawyer job with reasonable hours.

Whether you like it or not, law firm jobs take up your life. In return, you get paid a lot and get some prestige. That's the tradeoff.

But there are lots of ways to be a lawyer. Biglaw is just one of those ways. You can look for a job with the city, you can look for a job with a nonprofit, you can work for a small firm or a solo practitioner, you can do document review. Look for a job with the federal government, even - probably not DOJ, but, like, I have a friend who's a staff lawyer with the SSA, handling administrative appeals.

You have options. Biglaw isn't one of them. Saying that isn't fair won't help your situation.
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