Have to wonder if any of these fresh graduates are wondering about what long-term damage they may be doing to their professional reputation.
How hirable will you be if the first few years of your law career you were were laughed out of every Court because you were trying to defend a historically unpopular administration?
The legal market is brutal and KJDs need to pay off their undergrad, law school, and maybe even grad school debt.
The average and median salary of a Harvard Law graduate is $167K and $225K respectively [0], but your JD cost of attendance would have spent around $380K and your bachelors degree would have been around $200K. For those who did grad school (and a large portion did) you can throw in an additional $150-200K.
If you are looking at a $600K-800K in overall debt, you would rationally take any job that you can.
And it's not as if conservative minded legal students are rare [1].
> How hirable will you be if the first few years of your law career you were were laughed out of every Court because you were trying to defend a historically unpopular administration
AUSAs are a government job.
You become a federal employee of the DoJ, with easier hours than working BigLaw and an easier pathway to a judgeship, public office, or SES roles.
Additonally, lobbying firms and BigLaw would pay top dollar for AUSAs due to their relationships.
[0] - https://hls.harvard.edu/career-planning/recent-employment-da...
[1] - https://fedsoc.org/
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