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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't want to make you feel discouraged, but I am on the Legal Honors hiring committee for a federal agency (and not one of the popular ones like DOJ or State).  It has been years since we hired anyone with below median grades.  We get such a high quality applicant pool that we are able to hire new attorneys from top schools with top grades, law review/moot court and usually some kind of relevant work experience.  I don't think you're going to have the luxury of being picky in this legal market.[/quote]

I am on a similar committee, and we have a top 20 percent cutoff, no exceptions.[/quote]

Does that differ by school? Could someone in the top twenty at AU be hired but not someone who was top third at Georgetown?[/quote]

At our agency, the school doesn't count- the grades do.  However, there is a degree of subjectivity to our scoring system and I admit, I can't help but be more impressed with an applicant from Harvard than some school I've never heard of.  However, Georgetown vs. AU isn't going to make such a huge impression on me. [/quote]

This is the same at my agency. We hire a ton of attorneys, but not many without any experience. The school doesn't matter, and usually the grades don't either. We are looking for direct experience in the areas we practice. Our office has attorneys from an assortment of schools. The common thread is most of us knew someone in the agency before we were hired.

For a current law student, I would recommend trying to lateral from an internship. This is how I was hired for my first position. [/quote]

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