Any advice for someone making the jump from big law to work as an AUSA?

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It's been said that the AUSAs they hire should be capable of investigating and charging the most powerful people in their jurisdictions, such as fortune 500 CEOs, US senators and the like. This means you'll be pitted against the best lawyers in the country. These cases do come up and they will make or break your career. Not everyone can handle the scrutiny or attention and they want to know if you've been in situations like that. Most of us haven't and so they hire the people that have come close to that, such as prosecutors handling major death penalty cases, or civil litigators handling bet the company type cases.

It's helpful to have a boss or someone in your firm that was a former ausa to get you familiar with the internal workings of the office you're looking at. Each office, though part of DOJ, is run differently based on the caseloads they get.

If you're in biglaw you probably have done a federal clerkship so get your judge to put in a good word for you. That does matter in getting in the door.

If you're willing to work in a smaller city or area without a law school nearby, you stand a better chance of getting hired, so be willing to travel.

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