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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Let’s say your went to a DA’s office, they love you, and you’ve got a ton of trial experience. Perhaps if you stay a few more years you will be promoted to a senior or deputy position. Then maybe you can come into a firm as a senior associate or counsel, prove your worth, and make counsel.[/quote]

When I graduated, which was admittedly 7 years ago, I could not get a job at a DA's office to save my life, though I did get offers from top 50 firms, and a federal clerkship after I worked at one of said firms for a year and hated it.  It was truly disheartening since I went to law school with the aspiration of becoming a DA, and interned at the DA's office during school.  No offices in the multiple cites I applied in were hiring.  I'm not sure this is necessarily an easier path than a firm.  [/quote]

I did not mean to make it sound like getting a job at a DA was a piece of cake. I do think that in a lot of regions of the country it is less grade sensitive than are firms or federal judges (not because its easier, but because the office cares more about characteristics other than class rank). So it is plausible to me that with the right background, someone who has no shot at a large firm job could be a plausible candidate at a DA's office.[/quote]

I did a clerkship and got a great job after my clerkship, but I couldn't get a ADA/ASA to save my soul. [/quote]

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