Now that I think about it, I recall several stories from the past with Perfect Game as the victim of breaking and entering, and they ask social media to help them find the people they catch on camera. Do these chodes invest in an alarm system, or do they just have cameras recording people breaking in, followed by management walking in with their thumbs up their ass so they can post their victim of B&E garbage to social media so they can get reimbursed through insurance while milking free publicity? That would be a feasible defense attorney move to pull.

You’re wrong here. Marketability is extremely important for an attorney who wishes to transfer from public to private sector. Transitioning into private practice, although common, is extremely difficult for an attorney who is fresh out of law school and knee deep in educational debt. The marketability of any attorney wishing to make such a transition has to be based off of important cases they have handled, and the skills gained by doing so. An experienced prosecutor is usually more marketable to a large law firm than a public defender with less than a decade under the belt. The experienced prosecutors have a hand up and a major advantage.

You also need to take into account the appeal factor. What transferable skills does said attorney have? Law firms are reluctant to bring in a public servant who has no long list of clients to offer said firm. That would be considered an “invest hire” and a no-go for most big law firms. Do they have skills that can be applied to the private sector job they are applying for? Very hard to match that up unless it’s BIG FIRM or Litigation. Once we discuss litigation, no matter the experience of the prosecutor the law school the attorney graduated from, whether or not they were involved in law review, level and or prestige and power of their current position will always be just as important as experience. That’s because litigation is on the rise in big firms, while corporate and real estate are on the decline.

Although private sector jobs pay more, they are not as easily obtained by the average newly licensed attorney. Those high paying jobs are usually reserved for an attorney who has paved their way through law school, and perhaps have a few “connections”. A government position almost always offers the attorney job security, less hours, less scrutiny and being watched through a magnifying glass. Also, less competition to make it to the top. Public sector definitely has a revolving doors, but the attorney who leaves that position will have a tremendously difficult job finding a position at a private practice for anything more than what they are already earning. Even if they get paid more, their hours are daunting. Unless you have seniority, the cases are actually quite boring and mundane. This leads to a feeling of being “burned out” too soon. The enormous responsibility placed an attorney who is fresh meat when in a public servant position is high. They get to try cases that are not only significant, but VERY difficult to obtain working in private practice as those cases are usually given to associates/partners not some youngin’ just starting out. Also, the chances of moving to a higher position are much more likely in the public sector than the private.

Starting off in the public sector and attempting to transition in private is not only intimidating, it is not as easy as you make it out to be. They wouldn’t be getting their feet wet by starting off as an government employee, they would be burying them in cement. Unless of course they take the option of relieving educational debt by working a committed decade for the government. That usually doesn’t happen to any attorney who has incurred more than 75k of law school debt.

This post was way too serious for me… I don’t like using my brain unless I’m getting some kind of financial benefit out of it. So, let me go back to being Fiesty and say some vulgar shit that makes me look like I have pudding for brains.