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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

A lot of top schools don't rank, so your post is BS.  Federal agencies are full of mediocre lawyers and affirmative action hires.  [/quote]

If the school doesn't rank, we require an LSAT of 167.  It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but those are the rules.  We still have have hundreds of qualifying applications per opening, so I guess it is as good a way to make the first cut as any other.  I just wish we had wiggle room for otherwise exceptional candidates (like top quarter from Harvard), but we don't.[/quote]

What? I've applied for a ton of federal attorney positions, both honors and lateral, and have never been asked my LSAT score.[/quote]

There seems to be one fed attorney here who consistently tries to make getting a job with some nondescript agency sound like the equivalent of scoring a Supreme Court clerkship.  It's rather amusing. [/quote]

I am not that poster, but the last year before I left government to return to private practice we got 4000 resumes for our five entry level spots. . . I would not say the five people who got initial offers all had scoutus clerkships (though I think two did) but the odds of a particular applicant getting the job were indeed quite small.[/quote]

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