Does anyone practice White Collar criminal defense in NYC or know a decent amount about it? Is it fun or fulfilling? Is it a good way to break into government work in the future?

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It’s exhausting

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In my experience (mid level who does mostly this) it’s heavy on the investigation/fact development, light on the formal legal writing/litigation. That might differ at a place that does lots of individual representations (that could potentially go to trial) vice large companies (that inevitably settle - the only question being the resolution terms).

I like parts of it, but it is frequently soul crushing - between hot doc trackers and talking points and advocacy pieces no one in government wants to/will read, there’s a ton of make-work, even at pretty senior levels. Conventional wisdom is it’s helpful to working as an AUSA later on, but since prosecutors do actually litigate, I have to wonder whether doing more motion practice, even if in a non-criminal context, might be just as/more helpful.

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In Big Law, it involves a great deal of investigations work, which many lawyers like. FCPA has been slow during the current administration, but firms are expecting an upswing.

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Thank you for detailed answer

I do this for a boutique firm in the Midwest. We have a pretty sophisticated motions practice and there is definitely also a lot of fact development. The work is super interesting, news-worthy sexy headline stuff, and that’s fun. I do find it incredibly stressful, but maybe it’s like that in any practice area. The stakes are high though when you’re dealing with people facing prison time. Definitely a potential pipeline to AUSA, although more people start in government work and then move into white collar private practice.

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