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Can someone explain to me why it's prestigious to work for the DOJ?
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Date: March 3rd, 2026 12:39 AM Author: Cerebral aggressive nibblets https://www.reddit.com/r/LawSchool/s/p4eeVLSiwz
Pre-Trump, it was the best place to get complex litigation experience right out of the gate. Once you did a few years at DOJ you were very attractive to biglaw, boutiques, you name it. If they see DOJ they know you have top credentials and good experience working in high volume, high stakes litigation.
Now? Absolutely radioactive to employers. Most will file your resume in the circular filing bin unless you have a connection there that can vouch for you that you never misled the court, ignored court orders, made unsupported or unconstitutional arguments, etc.
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Date: March 3rd, 2026 12:40 AM Author: multi-colored den tattoo the current DOJ is on social media begging people to apply. it's obviously not prestigious now and probably filled with gutter trash from places like Liberty U. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49710412) |
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Date: March 3rd, 2026 12:44 AM Author: Mauve blood rage locale To be respectable you have to show absolute deference to the opinion of the AG on any given matter. But to be respectable you also have to know this AG is fraud. The way you thread that needle is to be candid with the court, but that just gets you fired so what's the point? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49710420) |
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Date: March 3rd, 2026 5:25 PM Author: Cerebral aggressive nibblets I'm pretty sure the DOJ does a lot of other things. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49712630) |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 10:11 AM Author: dead slap-happy nursing home why don't lawyers ever consider just not being total fucking faggots? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49714248) |
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Date: March 6th, 2026 4:53 PM Author: Mauve blood rage locale That gets you fired under this administration (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49721888) |
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Date: March 3rd, 2026 5:27 PM Author: Excitant sanctuary its a shame reddit allows people to hide their posts now. i loved clicking on profiles like this and all their other posts are about their 153 LSAT and long covid. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49712635) |
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Date: March 3rd, 2026 5:34 PM Author: Cerebral aggressive nibblets This is an underrated aspect of LinkedIn. You'll see some guy criticizing some CEO's management style in the comments of some post and suggesting how he'd do it better, click through, and see "Papa John's - Team Member - 8 years, 3 months". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49712667) |
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Date: March 3rd, 2026 5:52 PM Author: Excitant sanctuary i admire the honest gumption of the type of fella that wouldn't embellish his title to "Papa John's -- Team Leader" but still feels entitled to tell a CEO how to run a business. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49712712) |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 10:10 AM Author: mentally impaired translucent native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49714244) |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 10:12 AM Author: 180 mustard sound barrier old irish cottage much more respectable and credible than the same message originating from a YSFMAF malding 43 year old “cybersecurity analyst” or “sales lead” imho (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49714251) |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 10:52 AM Author: razzmatazz police squad pisswyrm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49714380) |
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Date: March 3rd, 2026 5:31 PM Author: Chrome Irradiated Brunch Puppy IIRC their hiring ads specifically say you must be on board with Trump and the MAGA agenda. And a large percentage of highly educated people in law firms and elsewhere will not want to hire someone who has that mindset. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49712652) |
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Date: March 3rd, 2026 5:35 PM Author: Cerebral aggressive nibblets Nazi lawyers ended up as judges after the war. This just isn't an actual issue. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49712671) |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 10:08 AM Author: Chrome Irradiated Brunch Puppy https://x.com/JuddLegum/status/2029190773451755837 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49714239) |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 10:11 AM Author: mentally impaired translucent native hasn’t every lawyer who ever lost on a point of law “made unsupported or unconstitutional arguments”? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49714247) |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 10:24 AM Author: Submissive stage doctorate when I was a law clerk I wanted to murder pretty much all counsel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49714285) |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 10:26 AM Author: Excitant sanctuary also ljl at bloodless biglaw fags who serve the slimiest GC corps clutching their pearls about serving in the DOJ. we're all hired guns. no one is going to be morally outraged you took a job in the DOJ when biglaw is going to have you doing 100x worse shit for more money. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49714300) |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 5:11 PM Author: Cerebral aggressive nibblets Important to note that the DOJ attorneys are often the ones trying harder than anyone to free people in illegal immigration detention. Now would be the absolute best time to join if you were a lib. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49715520) |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 7:35 PM Author: mentally impaired translucent native lol at thinking these are honest, principled people. for the bigfed lawyers that are actually otherwise employable, it’s an irresistible opportunity to *very* publicly crow about how they’re SO NOBLE that they chose public service but now they’re being forced to be EVEN MORE NOBLE in rejecting this administration’s fascist grasping (which coincidentally results in them making 4x more money hehehe). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49715967) |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 10:13 AM Author: spectacular cruel-hearted school cafeteria This administration is a disaster and the people defending all of it suck. So much of it is objectively bad. I totally understand why people voted for Trump over Harris and don’t blame them, but all this bullshit he’s doing should be called out.
It’s like people have to defend their team at all costs. Same thing with “moderate” liberals defending child sex change surgery because the “science” suppers it. What happened to us all? Can’t people just call out bullshit when they see it? |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 10:17 AM Author: nubile step-uncle's house wagecucks Why does it matter if DOJ hires have low GPAs and get discriminated against by shitlibs? Law is a Fake Job anyway. And the admin is awesome at like everything compared to the competition imo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49714265) |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 10:19 AM Author: Excitant sanctuary lots and lots of people here are calling out trump for iran, etc. some have abandoned him completely.
i agree that there is a disappointing lack of principles, with many people supporting shit they criticized libs for, but there are still plenty of people that *do* call out bullshit when they see it. |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 10:43 AM Author: nubile step-uncle's house wagecucks Libs fail to appreciate the ideological diversity on “the right.” It’s much much much more varied than on the left where no disagreement is allowed. They always, ALWAYS project. Fuentes has been ranting against Trump for the better part of a year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49714361) |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 10:49 AM Author: Excitant sanctuary reminds me of libs LOLing at the gop ousting johnson. they cannot conceive of a party not being completely unified. they'd rather keep pelosi forever even if she won't even put bills with supermajority support up for a vote. a trumpesqe figure reforming their party is unthinkable. they just get scumfucked like sanders.
i think that's why we've seen a bunch of 90s libs types move to the gop. |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 7:06 PM Author: nubile step-uncle's house wagecucks Did Johnson get ousted? Or do you mean that Kevin guy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49715921) |
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Date: March 5th, 2026 4:50 PM Author: Excitant sanctuary cr kevin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49718780) |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 10:29 AM Author: pungent orchestra pit It's really only preftigious to work for certain sections within DOJ.
Nobody cares about ENRD or most of the Civil Division. |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 10:53 AM Author: razzmatazz police squad pisswyrm ITT: a bunch of people who take seriously and believe what they read on reddit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49714381) |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 10:53 AM Author: federal misunderstood psychic wtf I love Reddit now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49714383) |
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Date: March 4th, 2026 5:16 PM Author: Chrome Irradiated Brunch Puppy After the apocalypse reddit karma will be the only currency. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49715550) |
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Date: March 6th, 2026 2:41 PM Author: Cerebral aggressive nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5840796&forum_id=2#49721424) |