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Thoughts on Working for an EEOC Judge

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:21 am

Has anyone worked for an EEOC Admin Judge in the past? I'm trying to decide if I should take an offer from the Atlanta office. It sounds like a good job but I don't know anyone who has worked there before. Thanks for any input you have!

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Re: Thoughts on Working for an EEOC Judge

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:25 am

are you at Emory?

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Re: Thoughts on Working for an EEOC Judge

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:42 am

Yes, I am.

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Re: Thoughts on Working for an EEOC Judge

Post by CanadianWolf » Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:45 am

Compared to what ? Do you have any other offers ?

Otherwise, it's a great opportunity if you want to practice employment law.

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Re: Thoughts on Working for an EEOC Judge

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Feb 26, 2014 1:02 am

I'm still waiting to hear back from a few things. But, I have to let the judge know my decision by the end of next week.

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Re: Thoughts on Working for an EEOC Judge

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Feb 26, 2014 9:08 am

Worked at the EEOC in Atlanta last summer, albeit in another unit, but they still let us do projects with the ALJs. I'd say do it; the judges are all very nice people and you'll literally spend the whole summer writing opinions and researching. Pretty tight if you can't find a paid gig/have any interest in employment law

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Re: Thoughts on Working for an EEOC Judge

Post by Bigbub75 » Wed Feb 26, 2014 3:28 pm

Would you want to work at the agency after school? Big Fed is normally hard to get right out of law school. An attorney who works for an agency said a great "backdoor" way in is to clerk for an ALJ for that particular agency for a year after graduating. A lot easier to transition from that clerkship into a job. Makes sense.

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Re: Thoughts on Working for an EEOC Judge

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Feb 26, 2014 6:21 pm

It's good to hear that all the judges are nice. Working there after school would be great, but I don't know if a summer internship would make as much difference as a clerkship.

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Re: Thoughts on Working for an EEOC Judge

Post by kls120 » Sun Mar 15, 2015 10:02 pm

Has anybody done this for NY district office? How was it?

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Re: Thoughts on Working for an EEOC Judge

Post by Anonymous User » Mon Mar 16, 2015 4:02 am

I worked for an administrative judge at the EEOC my 1L summer. I was writing summary judgment opinions most of the time, and I wrote one hearing decision actually finding discrimination. It's great writing/analysis experience, it's pretty cool to see things from a judge's perspective, and it was great to work so closely with my judge (who is still a mentor for me).

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Re: Thoughts on Working for an EEOC Judge

Post by Anonymous User » Mon Mar 16, 2015 4:04 am

Bigbub75 wrote:Would you want to work at the agency after school? Big Fed is normally hard to get right out of law school. An attorney who works for an agency said a great "backdoor" way in is to clerk for an ALJ for that particular agency for a year after graduating. A lot easier to transition from that clerkship into a job. Makes sense.
EEOC hasn't hired entry level attorneys for a while. (They don't have funding for honors attorneys any more)

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Re: Thoughts on Working for an EEOC Judge

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Anonymous User wrote:
Bigbub75 wrote:Would you want to work at the agency after school? Big Fed is normally hard to get right out of law school. An attorney who works for an agency said a great "backdoor" way in is to clerk for an ALJ for that particular agency for a year after graduating. A lot easier to transition from that clerkship into a job. Makes sense.
EEOC hasn't hired entry level attorneys for a while. (They don't have funding for honors attorneys any more)

While this is true, if someone was interested in working for the Commission it would be good to have that experience on their resume when a position opened up in the future.

I did not get a chance to work for the EEOC in law school but I did work for the DOL and it helped get me in the door as a Trial Attorney after 1 year of experience practicing, fwiw

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