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GoodLeads 15 - 05 Mar 2009 - Main.AnjaliBhat
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Got any leads on how to be a good lawyer? Put them here. | | | I'd thought for a while that government lawyering was the way to go, since I want to be a litigator for a while before getting into reform activities. The idea of prosecutorial discretion appealed to me most; while I may not agree with criminal sentencing in this country, at least I could add and drop charges as the evidence and the individual criminal warranted. The more I learn, however, the more I suspect that "big law" work and DA/USA work might not be that different. I have never worked in a prosecutorial capacity, but it seems like government bureaucracy and political pressures (to get convictions, to over-charge, to be "tough on fill-in-the-blank") might combine to create a similar culture of fear as we see in big firms, as others have mentioned. If not fear, then it would at least create the sense that, unlike Robinson, you have little to no control over your workload or your clientele.
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Lauren, the standard problems are what Dr. Monahan himself referred to: there's just no way of knowing how many people answering the survey are lying to themselves or making rationalizations to convince themselves they're happier than they really are. Or, conversely, how many are self-dramatizing and describing themselves as less happy than they really are. I believe Dr. Monahan also said that the differences were statistically significant--perhaps not between government and public interest, but certainly between those two and firm work.
Molissa, that's probably true. I've heard things about the culture of prosecutor's offices, at least in big cities, that are not unlike large law firms. However, there's a sense of righteousness that prosecutors seem to have, of being on a mission, that may contribute to their job satisfaction. But that can create a different problem if the righteousness becomes self-righteousness.
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