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The pay really sucks but if you live in one of the USAOs in "fly over country" it's pretty sweet. Same with Federal Defenders.

Quick answer: you don't. A large portion of cases get pled out via plea bargaining, and if the PD's have their shit together, the push the remaining load of cases to trial, and the DA/SA's drop a share of them and take their best or most serious cases to trial. I was a PD with more than two hundred ...

1. T50
2. 2015
3. public interest (government), $40,000 in a medium/high cost of living area
4. public interest (government), $100,000 in a low cost of living area

stego wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 01, 2019 2:57 pm

Did the judge excuse the witness when you asked?

So far when practicing before the other judges, I did not have to ask; they always excused the witness. But next time I'm before this particular judge I'll be sure to ask if necessary and see what happens.

I've never seen that, but I think I'd just ask "may the witness be excused?" before I started? Because no fucking way should a witness be making any kind of comment on the stand (or record) once the examination is complete. Yeah, I just had similar hearings with two other judges and they didn't do ...

A thread on litigation generally. What do you do when the judge does not excuse the opposing party's witness, the opposing party doesn't ask the the witness to be excused, and the judge asks you to make an argument? It feels really awkward to ask for the opposing party's own witness to be excused, b...

Is this still a thing?

My hat off to you. I wish I could do civil rights plus criminal, but as a PD I'm generally not allowed to. Keep up the fight!

Saul Goodman wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 09, 2019 7:10 am

The Criminal side of my practice has ramped up again. Have Court three days next week for plea conferences. Any of you that were considering making a jump a year ago make the jump?

I've been back in criminal defense for about a year now. No regrets!

Criminal law, particularly criminal defense, and more so if you do both state and federal work. I only have a few years experience and have argued so much con law, not just search and seizure but prisoner rights, immigration rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, cruel and unusual punishmen...

Pretty everyone in Con law did this. I agree that it’s only helpful in certain courses.

Supreme Court found that SEC ALJs, and by implication hundreds of other federal ALJs, were appointed in violation of the Appointments Clause: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-130_4f14.pdf This leaves open the question of whether removal protections of ALJs are also unconstitutional. I...

Sure, I’ll take a stab.

Dude, practicing law can exponentially more depressing.

My understanding of the process is that when an immigrant is apprehended, the immigrant must claim a credible fear of returning to their home country and that that claim has to be adjudicated and denied before any prosecution can take place (that is, if a credible fear exists, they get put in asylu...

Have you had to criminally prosecute an asylum seeker for illegal entry and, if so, how did you manage it?

Are you on any kind of court appointed counsel list so you could rep defendants that the public defenders office has a conflict with? I know a couple criminal defense solos who get steady work from that. The pay rates are low, but it is steady work they appreciate. That's what I'm currently doing. ...

Are you on any kind of court appointed counsel list so you could rep defendants that the public defenders office has a conflict with? I know a couple criminal defense solos who get steady work from that. The pay rates are low, but it is steady work they appreciate. That's what I'm currently doing. ...

Supreme Court found that SEC ALJs, and by implication hundreds of other federal ALJs, were appointed in violation of the Appointments Clause: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-130_4f14.pdf This leaves open the question of whether removal protections of ALJs are also unconstitutional. I...

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I have a friend doing this while in gov't. He's thinking about going private, but one firm hinted that they wouldn't too excited to have a JAG reservist. Despite the fact that discrimination against reservists is illegal, keep in mind that some firms probably do anyways.

I can speak to going from GS to a non-GS pay scale. I think it's general practice to try to at least match your prior federal salary. HR at my new agency explicitly told me that they tried to match my GS level salary in determining the offer (and they did). However, many agencies have rules that est...

Supreme Court found that SEC ALJs, and by implication hundreds of other federal ALJs, were appointed in violation of the Appointments Clause: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-130_4f14.pdf This leaves open the question of whether removal protections of ALJs are also unconstitutional. If...

Are you familiar with the USAO in DC? If so, have you seen AUSAs starting in their Superior Court Division move on to the criminal divisions of other USAOs?

Nebby wrote: ↑

Wed May 02, 2018 11:18 pm

lawman84 wrote: ↑

Wed May 02, 2018 11:10 pm

What the fuck, Second Circuit, what the fuck?
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way ... eals-court

Abolish ICE

At the very least extend Gideon to immigration proceedings.