For those who have been or are federal career clerks (especially looking for young moms) do/did you like it? Regret it? Go back into private practice some time in the future? Had a hard time going back to practice? I need the good, bad, ugly. Thanks!

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I have never been one personally, but have several friends who have. I don’t think they had a desire to go back to private practice, but they said it would be very. The ones who left have either (1) become judges themselves, (2) gone to smaller firms to retain work-life balance, or (3) left the law altogether

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