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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][google][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually think they will get takers.  Associates will be voluntold to do it.  Firms will brag to clients about their ability to influence the rules.  I also disagree that being named in a rule release isn't a bit of a feather in one's cap.  The CF director, for example, still talks about how he helped re-write Reg M-A.[/quote]

Top 5 dumbest post of 2026. First, no associate detailee would or could significantly “influence” anything. Second, even if they did, no law firm would “brag” about it.  Third, even if they did brag about it, no client would care. Fourth, any associate who a firm could so easily lose for 120 days has no future at the firm in any event (associates on partner track are indispensable to their cases/deals). [/quote]

DP.  Many regulatory lawyers, those mostly likely to be interested/of value in a rule writing stint aren’t doing cases/deals, and and being heavily invoked in a rewrite of the rules of that govern their industry might be worth stepping away from.

Firms wouldn’t brag about it publicly, but they undoubtedly would in pitches and the like and, if the experience was related to the client’s needs, the clients would care.  As for the ability to influence something, no they probably aren’t going to be making high level policy decisions, but junior-ish people can play big roles even in competent administrations, and the value is less in being able to direct the policy than being intimately familiar with the ins and outs of the policy, its formation, and the other career people who work on the issues at the agency.[/quote]

A jr attorney there for 4 months is not going to gain any meaningful sense of the ins and outs of the rule they are working on a tiny piece of much less “intimately familiar.” At most they will be drafting the PRA section lol. [/quote]

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